The metropolis is once more combating to enact its foie gras ban, dismissing the famed French delicacy as a high-end serving of animal abuse.
“The legislative record reflects a decision by the city that it values animal welfare over a luxury food item that requires force-feeding of birds,” the town Law Department argued final week in a Manhattan Supreme Court submitting to get the ban again on the desk.
Local Law 202, which prohibits the sale of the French goose-liver pâté within the 5 boroughs, handed the City Council with “overwhelming support” in October 2019, and was on account of take impact in November 2022.
But two upstate farms sued to cease the ban, claiming their operations have been humane and that the ban would pressure them to put off a whole bunch of employees. In August a choose and the state Department of Agriculture and Markets agreed, forcing the town to go to courtroom to resurrect the regulation.
The metropolis argues the state overstepped its authority.
“If local law 202 were it to go into effect, [it] would only prevent [the farms] from lawfully selling foie gras to businesses in the city, but would not prevent the sale of any other product they produce in the city and would not prevent the sale of foie gras outside the city,” in response to the authorized submitting.
Sergio Saravia, whose La Belle Farm was concerned within the lawsuit, mentioned he was assured the metropolis’s effort to ban foie gras would fail.
“I feel good about it because the Agriculture Department actually came to our farm, they actually came and saw our operation,” he mentioned, noting La Belle had repeatedly requested City Council members to go to and observe its humane practices, solely to be ignored.
“The city is very confident of its legal position,” a Law Department spokesman advised The Post.
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