Say Anything Blog

At least when it comes to foie gras.  Now if we could just get LA to start letting people eat hot dogs wrapped in bacon.

CHICAGO - Dining on foie gras — a delicacy made of duck and goose liver — will soon be legal again in Chicago.

The City Council on Wednesday repealed its two-year-old ban on the gourmet dish, drawing dissent from animal rights activists who consider foie gras cruel because the birds are force-fed to make their livers bigger.

But there were no worries in chef Didier Durand’s 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.”

The lesson to take from these food bans is that there is no government regulation that’s too absurd for this nation’s political elite.  Something to keep in mind as we let the government set precedents with smoking bans, and as some continue to demand that the government provide us with health care.

If “animal cruelty” is a good enough excuse for the politicians to ban foie gras, do you not think that “saving our national health care system money” won’t be a good enough excuse for some bureaucrat to put you on a diet?  Or start you on an exercise routine?

We should all want to be healthy, but that healthy lifestyle shouldn’t come at the expense of the freedom to be fat.