{"id":53,"date":"2006-08-23T07:45:48","date_gmt":"2006-08-23T11:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/?p=53"},"modified":"2006-08-23T07:45:48","modified_gmt":"2006-08-23T11:45:48","slug":"53","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/23\/53\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago\u2019s latest prohibition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two sniffy articles (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/08\/23\/us\/23chicago.html?ref=us\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/08\/22\/AR2006082201053.html?sub=AR\">here<\/a>) this morning on Chicago&#8217;s pate de foie ban that went into effect yesterday. Applause to Alderman Joe Moore who championed the ban. He sees this issue for what it is: animal cruelty. But people don&#8217;t like being told what they can&#8217;t do. They refuse to acknowledge the real issue and twist it around to something else. Why ban luxury ingredients? What&#8217;s next? It&#8217;s my money. Etc. Etc. These self-absorbed stupid rich people are too involved with their greed to see animal cruelty when it hits them in the, ahem, stomach. I would lock &#8217;em up for eating pate de foie gras. But Chicago&#8217;s Department of Public Health spokesperson said he wasn&#8217;t &#8220;chomping at the bit&#8221; to enforce the ban. And Mayor Richard M. Daley calls the ban the &#8220;silliest law&#8221; passed by the city council. Mmmm. Anarchy in the USA?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two sniffy articles (here and here) this morning on Chicago&#8217;s pate de foie ban that went into effect yesterday. Applause to Alderman Joe Moore who championed the ban. He sees this issue for what it is: animal cruelty. But people &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/23\/53\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eating","tag-animals-in-agriculture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}