The Medical Freedom Channel

“Dining on foie gras — a delicacy of duck and goose liver — will soon be legal again in Chicago. The Chicago City Council on Wednesday repealed its controversial two-year-old ban on the gourmet dish, drawing dissent from animal rights activists who consider foie gras cruel because the geese and ducks are force-fed to make their livers bigger. But there were no worries in chef Didier Durand’s Loop restaurant, Cyrano’s Bistrot. ‘All of us are so excited,’ Durand told reporters as he held his pet duck, Nicolai, named after French President Nicolas Sarkozy. ‘People miss it. They used to go to the suburbs to get foie gras and stopped going to specifically French restaurants.’” (05/14/08)