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The California foie gras law or Senate Bill 1520 (S.B. 1520) [1] is a California State statute that prohibits the "force feed[ing of] a bird for the purpose of enlarging the bird's liver beyond normal size" (California Health and Safety Code § 25981) as well as the sale of products that are a result of this process (§ 25982). [2]
Californians can buy foie gras produced out of state despite California's ban on the delicacy, a federal appeals court ruled Friday. The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a 2020 lower ...
The Supreme Court said Monday it won't get involved in a dispute over a California animal cruelty law that bars foie gras from being sold in the state, leaving in place a lower court ruling ...
In California, for example, the force-feeding of birds, which is how foie gras is made, is entirely illegal. Chicago, on the other hand, has entirely banned the sale of foie gras products. In 2019 ...
Chicago: On 26 April 2006, the Chicago City Council voted to ban the sale of foie gras, effective 22 August 2006. [93] Breaches of the ban were punishable with fines of $250–500. [94] Alderman Joe Moore, who proposed the ban, described the method by which foie gras is produced as "clearly animal cruelty". [94]
Farm Sanctuary achieved a legislative victory in California when, in September 2004, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed into law Senate Bill 1520, sponsored in part by Farm Sanctuary, which bans the force-feeding of ducks and geese in the production of foie gras and the sale of the product when made from force-fed birds. Both provisions took ...
In December, the Supreme Court denied the foie gras industry's petition challenging California's ban on the sale of foie gras. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals’ mandate went into immediate effect, banning foie gras in California.
Foie gras (French for 'fat liver'); (French: [fwa ɡʁɑ] ⓘ, English: / ˌ f w ɑː ˈ ɡ r ɑː / ⓘ) is a specialty food product made of the liver of a duck or goose. According to French law, [1] foie gras is defined as the liver of a duck or goose fattened by gavage (force feeding). Foie gras is a popular and well-known delicacy in French ...