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E-mail to a friendTom Tunney's stealth attempt to repeal the foie gras ban just passed in the City Council 37 to 6.
Joe Moore was pissed. After what some say was Tunney's "unprecedented" end run around regular procedural rules, he scolded the council for not allowing a debate on the matter: "Today it happened to me. Tomorrow it could happen to you."
"Thank you Alderman Joe "Foie Gras" Moore," replied the mayor with a dismissive rap of the gavel.
Over at Hot Doug's the only Chicagoan busted under the ban, Doug Sohn, says he'll bring back his foie gras-duck sausage as soon as he sees the law on paper.
This sort of ban is ultimately an issue of personal responsibility. If you don't like the idea of foie gras, don't eat it, but don't you dare touch mine!
Having raised geese I can say that if one of these large, strong birds did not like the feeding it would struggle and the people involved would be bruised up if not seriously injured.