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Article: Pressured by activists, Illinois and others consider foie gras ban
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- March 29, 2005
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SALEM, Ore. -- At Hurley's restaurant in hip Northwest Portland,
foie gras isn't anywhere on the menu. You have to ask for it.
Servers will tell you of at least three ways the fattened duck
liver delicacy is served, including chef and owner Tom Hurley's
signature savory foie gras flan with wild mushrooms.
Hurley's is among several Portland restaurants that have removed
foie gras from their menus because of protests by animal rights
activists, who would gather outside restaurants with gruesome images
of dead and diseased ducks they say are the result of inhumane force-
feeding techniques used to produce foie gras.
Opponents say the practice should be outlawed and persuaded the
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