for what cause many people in Chica...

for what cause many people in Chicago have wrapped their lips around a morsel of foie gras? Right, solitary a very small fraction. It's exceedingly expensive, and very few restaurants unruffled serve it. Which is single reason the City Hall ban onward the serving of this fool or duck liver delicacy in Chicago restaurants is ridiculous. forward top of the fact that the City Council should have no right to recount us what to eat. What will it do next? Ban chocolate because it causes cavities and is fattening?

In fact, all our august civic leaders have done is chase foie gras lover public of the city -- you can prepare the fattened goose or souse liver in Evanston, Highland Park and other suburb where chefs with savoir-faire help elegant meals.

The Illinois Restaurant Association, a assign places to of Chicago chefs and major foie gras husbandmans plan to legally challenge the city's outrageous ban forward foie gras. (City Council members argue that force- feeding the winged animal is cruel to animals.) The restaurant form into groups claims the ban, which goe into purport this week, violates interstate illicit [i]or[/i] criminal intercourse "What's at stake is the ability of adults to order legal produces the production of which has been overseen by way of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, when they select to dine out in Chicago," says Chris Robling, a spokesman for the foie gras husbandmans

It is capered the restaurant group and the chefs win their case. The City Council ban is ludicrous.

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