Our friends at KYW Newsradio 1060 bring us some news of a tasty treat that might not fly in Philly:
Philadelphia city council adjourns for the summer after Thursday’s session, and awaiting them when they return in the fall will be a potential hot potato — whether to ban the duck-liver delicacy foie gras.City councilman Jack Kelly first proposed a ban on foie gras back in 2006, but he never scheduled a hearing on the matter because he sensed others on council would not support it. Now Kelly has re-introduced the measure and he promises a hearing in the fall, even if he lacks the support of council colleagues:
“I’m going to have a hearing, and I’m going to let the people testify, show the slides and show the films. And if anyone doesn’t think its torture, well then they’ll vote against it.”
Kelly’s plan to ban foie gras thrilled animal rights activists, who say that force feeding ducks to enlarge their livers is inhumane.
Restaurateurs says the free market, not government, should decide the fate of foie gras.
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Among the cities
The Chicago City Council banned foie gras in 2006, but repealed the ban recently. A theory as to the reason for the repeal that I read was that their inability to serve foie gras injured the competitiveness of Chicago’s fine restaurants relative to those in other possible centers of business and thus the appeal of Chicago to lucrative businesses. I am not certain of this, but it seems that it would little behoove the Philadelphia city council to injure the competitiveness of the city, which I doubt is performing very well in that regard in the first place.
Some weeks, more
Some weeks, more Philadelphians die than soldiers in Iraq, and this is the kind of mindless trivia that Democrats think about?
The cost of running their schools (20,000/year/child) is an embarrassment almost as big as the illiteracy such spending produces.
Democrats never try to fix problems, only distract the stupid and self-righteous with more imaginary problems while raising their taxes.
Jack Kelly = GOP
I may be mistaken, but I think Jack Kelly is a Republican. But I do agree with part of what you are saying, there are much more important things for our elected officials to deal with than banning certain food items.
It's great that Philly has solved serious problems like
rampant murder, a sky-high school drop-out rate, and embarrassing poverty so that the Council can now focus on trivial issues like foie gras.
Quack.
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