Foie gras ban

• California restaurant owners had until midnight to legally sell foie gras to customers seeking the French delicacy.
(ABC News)
• This weekend, foie gras — fattened duck or goose liver — will vanish from California restaurants and gourmet groceries. And that has sent Sean Jordan on a one-man foie gras bender.
(Los Angeles Times)
• Californias nation-leading ban on the culinary delicacy foie gras has received the most attention. The product is created by force-feeding ducks or geese through funnel-like tubes until their livers grow to more than 10 times their normal size.
(msnbc.com)
• On 1 July, California is poised to become the first state in the US to ban foie gras.
(The Guardian)
• Today marks a turning point in the culinary calendar of California when a ban enacted nearly eight years ago on foie gras - the gourmet food made from the fattened livers of force-fed ducks and geese - takes effect.
(Irish Times)
• The nation's first state-sanctioned ban on the traditional French dish foie gras will hit home hard for California gourmets on Sunday.
(NewsMax.com)
• LOS ANGELES -- This weekend, foie gras - fattened duck or goose liver - will vanish from California restaurants and gourmet groceries. And that has sent Sean Jordan on a one-man foie gras bender.
(Sacramento Bee)
• It's been eight years since former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed Senate Bill No. 1520 into law, prohibiting the sale and production of foie gras in the Golden State. On Sunday, that ban from 2004 finally goes into effect.
(CNN)
• Editors note: A steely-eyed reader has pointed out that there was in fact one high-profile arrest during the Chicago foie gras ban.
(Phoenix New Times)
• SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Only days left to order foie gras at a California restaurant. Any restaurant that serves the fatty duck or goose liver after June 30 will be fined up to $1,000.
(McClatchy)