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Foie Gras to Be Banned in California

Critter News

It was also a perhaps belated realization by these chefs and their fans that a law signed eight years ago is truly taking effect and is about to change the way they do business drastically, putting California on the front lines of the battle about force-feeding ducks and geese to produce the silky liver delicacy.

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The True Costs of the Rhetoric of Terror Continue to Mount – Part 1

Animal Ethics

In Part 2, I will discuss and defend these claims, but here in Part 1, I want examine the real motivation for the Act, as well as the rhetoric that allowed such chilling legislation to sail through both houses of Congress. See the Office of Legislative Policy and Analysis here for details.] On November 4, 2005, Rep. The Senate Bill S.