Yet another battle in New York's foie gras war.
to stop the ban, claiming it would negatively impact their businesses and force them to lay off hundreds of workers.siding with them
, effectively stopping the ban from becoming law as planned. The city isn’t giving up though, and so now it has filed a new suit in an attempt to finally stop the sale of foie gras. “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,” the legal filing says.
While that may be true, the farms get a lot of their business from selling foie gras in New York City, and they will continue to fight for their right to do so. Sergio Saravia of La Belle Farm, one of those involved in the lawsuit, told the“I feel good about it because the Agriculture Department actually came to our farm, they actually came and saw our operation,” he said.
At least until this latest lawsuit winds its way through the legal system, the foie gras wars shall continue.
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