Foie gras flap spreads -- bill would ban duck dish
But haute cuisine restaurateurs say proposal goes too far
A proposal by a powerful Bay Area lawmaker could make California the first state to ban the production and sale of foie gras -- a move that would wipe the controversial delicacy from menus throughout this food-savvy state.
The Nanny-State Perserveres
. . . The legislation -- which Burton predicts will pass easily in the Senate but faces an uncertain fate in the Assembly -- is seen by backers as a major step in reaching a long-sought goal of eliminating domestic foie gras production altogether. New York is the only other state in which foie gras is made at large farms, and a bill to ban its manufacture has been introduced there.
Well, I like to go to Alpine Village in Torrance. Pate is served with bread at the restaurant, and is sold, in bulk at the market there. This law is BS. What's worse, then we'd have to import it from FRANCE? Are you s**t*i*g me? |