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Foie Gras to Be Banned in California

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In eight months, the sale of foie gras will be banned in California. There was smoked foie gras, roasted foie gras, steamed foie gras and liquefied foie gras, injected into agnolotti. There was even a foie gras dessert: a brownie sundae with foie gras Chantilly.

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Wolfgang Puck Sends Letter Supporting End to Foie Gras Sales

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So, he penned an open letter to California restaurants still serving foie gras. As you know, foie gras will be banned at the start of July this year.) Although his gastronomic reputation has, let's fact it, been marred due to his frozen food and canned soup lines, Spago founder and chef Wolfgang Puck still has some pull.

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San Francisco Passes Anti-Foie Gras Resolution

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San Francisco supervisors have passed a resolution supporting city restaurants that remove foie gras from their menus. Foie gras is the liver of a duck or a goose that has been specially fattened by force feeding. Tags: meat california foie gras. I just find the whole description vile and gruesome.).

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Foie Gras Disappearing From San Diego Restaurants

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Here in Seattle, NARN (Northwest Animal Rights Network) has been staging protests at a local restaurant that serves foie gras. In addition, back in 2004, Governor Schwarzenegger signed a bill making foie gras illegal starting in 2012. Tags: animal cruelty california foie gras food.

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Could California's Ban on Foie Gras Have a Domino Effect in the US?

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Pro-foie gras chefs seem to think so. Here's hoping that they are right! Read about it here.

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Animal Ethics

pâté de foie gras. Here is a New York Times story about goose-liver paste, a.k.a. Nobody with a conscience should eat this.

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Does Vick Deserve a Second Chance?

Animal Person

Like "producing" foie gras? Like eating foie gras? Is fighting and killing dogs the same thing? Is Vick a special kind of creep for what he did? Is what he did like hunting? Like skinning a mink? Like clubbing a seal to death? Is it the dogs that are at issue? If they were pigs, would anyone care?

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