[ SHOWGSD-L ] ILL-City repeals "silliest law ever" - Foie Gras
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- Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 16:20:22 -0400
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ILL-City repeals "silliest law ever" - Foie Gras
http://cbs2chicago.com/local/foie.gras.ban.2.723607.html
May 14, 2008 11:07 am US/Central
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Foie Gras Ban: City Repeals 'Silliest Law Ever'
Animal Rights Activists Say Preparing Delicacy Amounts To Animal Cruelty
CHICAGO (CBS) â?? It was championed by animal rights activists but made
Chicago a worldwide culinary punch line. Today, aldermen repealed the city's
foie gras ban.
The City Council passed the ban on foie gras in April 2006. Its sponsor, Ald.
Joe Moore (49th), said the city needed to condemn animal cruelty.
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"Foie gras" is French for "fat liver." Animal activists say ducks and geese
are brutally force fed grain to increase their livers to ten times their normal
size.
But even before it was passed, the restaurant industry said it was a
heavy-handed regulation that would make Chicago a laughingstock. Mayor Richard
M. Daley agreed, calling it "the silliest law the City Council has ever
passed," and has supported moves to overturn it.
With Mayor Daley's blessing, Ald. Tom Tunney (44th) helped spearhead a move
to repeal the ban, and today he rounded up enough votes. Tunney does not serve
foie gras at his Ann Sather restaurants, and did not before the ordinance
passed.
Last year, Ald. Berny Stone (50th), who originally supported the ordinance,
led a move to repeal it. The motion was sent to committee and not taken up
again until now.
A lawsuit was also filed in U.S. District Court last year claiming the city
has no right to regulate the sale of a product that is produced legally, but a
judge dismissed the lawsuit, saying the ban was not unconstitutional.
Restaurateurs continued to protest the law, sometimes giving away foie gras
rather than selling it. They say the ban made Chicago look like a very
unsophisticated city.
The only high-profile violation of the ban since it was enacted was against
Doug Sohn, owner of Hot Doug's, who sold a hot dog with foie gras on it and
pleaded guilty to violating the ordinance.
Last August, the Chicago Reader quoted city Health Department spokesman Tim
Hadac as saying the department does only minimal enforcement of the ordinance.
CBS 2's Joanie Lum contributed to this report.
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