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As a proposed ban of foie gras makes its way through the New York City Council, duck farmers and animal rights activists are scrambling to make their respective cases
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- Title
- Can New York City Live Without Foie Gras? We May Soon Find Out (Published 2019)
- Published
- Aug 29 2019
- Word count
- 1619 words
This ties in to the vegan article currently on the front page as well. Wherever you fall on the "Is meat moral?" question generally, I think it is much, much harder to justify foie gras, which is undoubtedly a luxury. And one made via extremely cruel methods nonetheless. Whether or not normal factory farming is equally cruel, as suggested by one of the proponents in the article, is a separate question entirely. Justifying it as "culinary history" is simply not good enough.