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A federal judge yesterday upheld Chicago's ban on foie gras, disappointing chefs across the city, and of course, giving renewed energy to both sides to persevere. 
In dismissing the Illinois Restaurant Association's lawsuit, U.S. District Judge Blanche Manning ruled that the city does have a constitutional right to prohibit the sale of foie gras.
On a related note, we were alerted yesterday to a tiny section (Section 123) of the pending USDA Farm Bill that could potentially render all of this scuffling moot in the long run anyway. Section 123 denies states and localities the right to enact bans relating to food safety and animal welfare. From what we have been reading, the primary goal of this section is to prohibit states from regulating genetically engineered crops or food, not to allow Hot Doug's to go to town. However, the language is such that local- and state-level bans on foie gras and horse slaughter, for example, would also be affected.
If you can't get enough foie gras talk, Ald. Bernard Stone (50th) will reintroduce a repeal of the year-old foie gras ban at today's City Council meeting. Bon Appetit!
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My manhood and integrity depend on the overturn of this ban...
Phew! So yet again we're to be saved from ourselves. Boy, I knew that the fois gras ban was somehow changing the world, saving lives, making the world a better place... would hate to have that repealed.
There's another type-o in this piece! C'mon, you guys! That makes four big ones in three posts just today.
xastris - Are you paying to read this? Why do the typos make you so angry? Let it go...
Again, thank you alderman for your ability to senselessly pass such dumb legislation and continuing to waste taxpayer dollars defending such ludicrous legislation so you can sleep knowing you rid your little worlds' bubble of foi gras. You have created a laughinstock and an embarrasment of yourselves. Cheers!
I think the only people who should be embarrassed are the ones who keep trying to overturn the ban.
They really should have gone about this law in a more reasoned manner. You can't ban a dish. But you can ban the sale of food products that were produced in a cruel manner.
Good = Let a goose eat as much as it wants, and fry up its tasty liver.
Bad = Cram a tube down the goose's neck and stuff corn down its neck until it dies, and fry up its tasty liver.
That makes sense and addresses the point of the law, which I think is supposed to be the cruelty. Instead of making Chicago's legislature a laughingstock, you'd create a real marketplace for non-cruelty foie gras, and maybe, just maybe, effect some change in the way we treat the animals we eat.
who said i was angry? is it not okay to point out type-os? i'm just saying - this otherwise great site is getting sloppy. if they expect people to read it - and indeed sell advertising on the site because people do in any number - it just seem to me it should be, you know, readable.
god, point out anything around here and people are just itching to make something personal.
hilarious that i just made one.....
Cruel fois gras is unnecessary, so ban it, it's not like fois gras tastes all that good anyway! Greasy mess...