Last month, City Councilor Mitch Green debuted his intention to spearhead a ban on foie gras in the new year.
When Green offered his “sneak peak” at the foie gras project during a December committee meeting, fellow City Councilor Olivia Clark asked if time was best spent on animal welfare when the city was in what some economists say is a “doom loop.” She said she’d appreciate it if Green held off on bringing it as an agenda item in a January meeting.
Green declined to delay it. At the time, he replied that the sale of foie gras was an economic issue in of itself. “The foie gras ban,” he said during the Dec. 16 Arts and Economy Committee meeting, “is an economic issue that is very important to people in our community.”…