Chicago's foie gras faux crisis

Advice columnist and Pajamas Media blogger Amy Alkon has a post about Chicago's foie gras ban. For those who aren't aware of this culinary item, it's a made from fattened livers of force-fed geese.

Animal rights activists view the treatment of the geese as torture.

Alderman Joe Moore sponsored the legislation, now law, that put the foie gras ban into place.

Until it was forbidden, Chicago was not overrun with restaurants serving the pricey delicacy. Estimates vary widely on the number of eating establishments that had foie gras on their menu. Some say two, bolder researchers claim four restaurants in the nation's third-largest city offered it.

Until 1999, I lived in Moore's ward, the 49th. It's a pretty run-down place.

For more on that ward, visit The "Broken Heart" of Rogers Park.

Chicago is a crazy place.

Just to the south of Moore's ward is Mary Ann Smith's 48th Ward. Working hand-in-hand with the secular anti-humanist group, PETA, Smith is trying to get a de facto ban on elephants put into law, as I blogged in this post, City of Chicago weighs elephant ban.

Meanwhile, yesterday in federal court, opening arguments in the trial of several former top aides of Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley were heard. Four men are accused of breaking the law by circumventing bans on politically-based hiring.

A quote by this famous Illinoisan and onetime presidential candidate, Adlai E. Stevenson, is a good way to end this post.

In a democracy, you get the government you deserve.

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