California To Appeal Ruling Overturning Foie Gras Ban

By Lisa Baertlein

LOS ANGELES, Feb 4 (Reuters) – California’s profession ubiquitous on Wednesday filed notice that her bureau will interest a sovereign judge’s preference that overturned a state’s two-year anathema on sales of foie gras, a sweetmeat done from greasy steep and geese liver.

California outlawed foie gras sales and prolongation in 2004, though a anathema did not take outcome until 2012. Proponents of a anathema contend forced feeding of ducks and geese to increase their livers amounts to animal cruelty.

Critics of a anathema contend it infringes on culinary freedom, effectively branch chefs into criminals.

Animal rights activists, including a Animal Legal Defense Fund and a Humane Society of a United States cheered Attorney General Kamala Harris’ move.

“Kamala Harris is right to interest this controversial ruling. California has a right to forestall a commerce in such a vicious and inhumane product,” pronounced Paul Shapiro, clamp boss of plantation animal insurance during a Humane Society.

Harris, who has announced that she will find a Democratic assignment to reinstate timid U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer, declined criticism by her office.

A U.S. District Court decider in Los Angeles ruled on Jan. 7 that California’s anathema ran afoul of a sovereign law controlling ornithology products. The statute usually practical to a sale of foie gras. Production continues to be banned. (Reporting by Lisa Baertlein in Los Angeles; Editing by Dan Whitcomb and Sandra Maler)

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