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Top Chefs Try to Head Off Foie Gras Ban
Some of California's best-known chefs are lobbying to repeal a 2005 ban on foie gras, scheduled to take effect on July 1. It's animal rights versus haute cuisine.
By Warren Olney • • 52m ListenSome of California's best-known chefs are lobbying to repeal a ban on foie gras, produced by force-feeding geese and ducks to enlarge their livers. The ban provided seven years for development of more humane means of production, and it's scheduled to take effect on July 1. We hear about animal rights versus haute cuisine. Also, forget Dodger Stadium, the Getty and the Hollywood Bowl. On this May Day, we look at Los Angeles landmarks from a Left-of-Center point of view. On our rebroadcast of today's To the Point, is Congress as bad as it looks…or worse?
Banner image: Poached Moulard Duck Foie Gras Au Torchon with Pickled Pear. Photo by IlMungo/flickr
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More than one hundred of California's best known chefs are lobbying in Sacramento for repeal of a law passed more than seven years ago. It banned the sale of foie gras from geese and ducks force fed to make their livers much fatter than normal. Foie gras means "fatty liver." The ban will go into effect on July 1 of this year.
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