wrote:

> Is that because it [foie gras] is viewed as cruelty to animals by forcefeeding
> them?

Yes, that was the argument. Several impressionable city officials
passed that law back in 2006:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/...n1550028.shtml

.... but what followed was a bit of "civil disobedience":

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14472971/

and, most recently:

http://preview.tinyurl.com/ydsnr8 [preview provided for the paranoid]

Mark Lipton
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