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Chicago Ducks Foie Gras Ban

Posted May 15, 08 1:00 PM CDT in Business,  US    Most Covered

(Newser) – A Chicago restaurant ban on foie gras pate that animal lovers love to hate has been lifted by city legislators after two years. The ban caused widespread derision among foodies, fury in the restaurant industry—and plaudits from animal rights advocates who wanted to save the force-fed ducks and geese whose super fatty livers make the pate. Mayor Richard Daley bulldozed the repeal through the City Council, reports the Sun Times.

"The city had placed its mark as a city of compassion, a city that was standing up against  cruelty and it’s taken a giant step backward," said a councilman who opposed the switch.

Source Chicago Sun-Times

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Todd Stein, executive chef at MK, a trendy downtown Chicago restaurant, slicing a portion of foie gras. The Chicago City Council has repealed its controversial two-year-old ban on the delicacy.   (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File)
Chef Didier Durand, of Cyrano's Bistrot & Wine Bar, holds his pet duck, Nicolai, outside his restaurant in Chicago, after the Chicago City Council repealed its controversial two-year-old ban on foie gras,...   (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
Todd Stein, the executive chef at MK, a trendy downtown Chicago restaurant, slicing up a portion of foie gras at his restaurant. Chicago City Council has repealed its controversial two-year-old ban on...   (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File)
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