The move came after three years of protests by Farm Sanctuary, an animal-rights group that launched wolfgangpuckcruelty.org — relabeled Wolfgang Puck Victory as of Thursday — and organized a leafletting campaign outside Puck's restaurants.
Consumer activism drives change, nothing more. This is a dollars and cents move though I'm very happy to see anyone move to more sustainable practices and support of ethical treatment of animals. Now if only the White House would extend that to people we'd be in business.
As a chef I have been calling for this since I started culinary school....If only people would listen to me on all issues.
Sometimes there is no explaining the United States.
American gastronomic squeamishness is a standing joke over here. If only Americans were as worried about how MUCH they ate.
There is a bright side to the issue, a win-win if you will. The less foie gras you eat, the more there is for the rest of us.
Copenhagen doesn't the animals well being come into it at all? As a chef I would have no problems eating any part of an animal, it's how that animal is treated before it dies that matters to me.
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