Current Events > Fake liberals ban foie gras in NYC and destroy rural economies as a result.

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Banning Foie Gras in NYC was a terrible move, look at the communities at risk and worse it's primarily minorities that are at risk from the fake liberals in the city council and their boneheaded decision.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/luxury-dish-banned-rural-county-170509549.html

That whole city council needs to be replaced and De Blasio as well, he's comes off as a fake liberal as well, bans like this are for endangered species, not farm animals that are raised for food. Real liberals are pro-worker but these folks in NYC are far from real liberals, their actions are unrasonable.
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If their product is good they can find another market. The world consumes more foie now than it has in decades.

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We should ban factory farms and halal meat as well

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Like other forms of poultry farming and processing, the work is hard, smelly and low-paying, culminating in a fast-moving line to pluck, butcher and package the duck for sales. Workers stand shoulder to shoulder in the steamy processing rooms, each taking a few seconds to put the ducks on hooks, snip off the head or feet, strip the neck, vacuum-seal the breasts.
For Len, who feeds the ducks, the workday begins at 6 a.m., with the first feeding, and ends around 1 a.m., when she finishes the third. In between feedings, she grabs what sleep she can in a little white clapboard bungalow provided to her family by the farm. About one-third of the workers live on the farm.
Foie gras, which means fatty liver in French, is produced by force-feeding male Moulard ducks a sterile hybrid of Pekin and Muscovy ducks through a tube shoved down their throats three times a day during the last three weeks of their lives, a process known as gavage, which expands their livers to 10 times their normal size.

But think of all the money they could be making!

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