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Article: Panel Airs Proposed Foie Gras Ban
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- The Washington Post
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- March 5, 2008
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Animal welfare groups took aim yesterday at one of the staples of
haute cuisine, the fatty livers of geese and ducks, known as foie
gras, whose production entails force-feeding the birds through a
pipe down their throats.
But what the enemies of foie gras called cruel, its purveyors
called safe and humane as they fought a proposed ban on the sale of
the traditional French delicacy in Maryland restaurants and
specialty shops.
The Senate's education, health and environment committee,
accustomed to debating global warming, septic systems and high-
school dropout rates, heard two hours of testimony on the durability
of goose gullets and whether a duck feels pain as its liver is
fattened up.
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