foie gras
Restaurants in Chicago will be able to serve foie gras again after the city’s council overturned a ban on the controversial delicacy less than two years after imposing it.
Posted: 16 May 2008 | 14:30
Restaurateurs are hitting back in the foie gras debate, refusing to bow to pressure from animal rights activists who are continuing to target them over the sale of the controversial delicacy.
Posted: 01 May 2008 | 07:00
Foie gras is the food that divides the dinner table, and a recent surge in protests against restaurants has forced many to stop selling the controversial delicacy. Is there a future for foie gras on British menus? Kerstin Kühn investigates
Posted: 10 April 2008 | 00:00
Animal rights campaigners in Yorkshire have announced they are to target restaurants in Leeds this weekend in a bid to turn the city “foie gras free”.
Posted: 29 February 2008 | 17:24
The future of foie gras on British menus has been thrown into doubt after animal rights activists forced three restaurants to stop serving the controversial delicacy last week.
Posted: 28 February 2008 | 07:00
Foie gras is the food that divides the dinner table. On the one side there are those who consider the fatty duck or goose liver the ultimate delicacy; while on the other there are those whose concerns over its production make them push their plates aside.
Posted: 27 February 2008 | 15:25
Michelin-starred restaurant, Midsummer House, has been forced to take foie gras off its menu, following weeks of protests by animal rights groups.
Posted: 20 February 2008 | 11:58
Midsummer House in Cambridge was forced to close yesterday after it was vandalised by animal rights protesters for serving foie gras.
Posted: 19 February 2008 | 11:33
A Gloucester restaurateur has claimed that he was “bullied” into taking foie gras off his menu by campaigners.
Posted: 28 November 2007 | 12:49
As the debate over the ethics of foie gras rages on, Tom Vaughan talks to restaurateur who might have found a way to appease both sides
Posted: 26 July 2007 | 00:00
The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) is calling for a ban on foie gras after a poll found nearly two-thirds of people in Britain (63%) want the food banned because of the cruelty involved in its production.
Posted: 30 May 2007 | 10:48
Raymond Blanc has come under fire from animal rights activists who have slammed the Michelin-starred chef for serving foie gras at his Birmingham restaurant Brasserie Blanc.
Posted: 14 February 2007 | 13:24
Tio Pepe, sponsor of Gordon Ramsay series The F-Word, has been slammed by animal rights campaigners for a "cruel" ad tie-in.
Posted: 14 November 2006 | 10:52
