foie gras

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At Step It Up I was pleased to meet Christina Triplett of the Worcester Vegan Society. She told me one of the WVS’s projects is making Worcester a foie gras-free city.

Chicago went so far as to ban foie gras sales, with mixed results.

According to the WVS’s materials, only 2 restaurants in Worcester serve the stuff: Block 5 (which uses it to garnish steak) and Bocado (which serves it on a sandwich). What’s more, they have the same chef! So making Worcester foie gras-free would be no more complicated than one man tweaking his menus.

Wolfgang Puck recently removed foie gras from his offerings, and in a statement said:

Our guests are interested in the same environmental issues that have long concerned us—sustainable farming and fishing, humane treatment of farm animals and reducing the amount of hormones, antibiotics, preservatives and pesticides in the food we eat.

YouTube video of Wolfgang Puck