The Only Legal Foie Gras In California Hits the Menu at LinkedIn HQ – VegNews

Animal-derived foie gras—or the inflamed liver of a duck or goose—has not been served on restaurant menus in California for years. This week, LinkedIn HQ in Sunnyvale, CA confidently put foie gras on its menu with one caveat: this foie gras is made without any animal products by Sacramento company The Better Meat Co.    Why is foie gras illegal? Animal-derived foie gras is made by force-feeding birds until their livers become inflamed, a cruel practice that many animal-rights advocates and consumers want to see banned. In California, the fight over foie gras has been a decade-long endeavor. In 2012, California banned the production of the cruelly begotten liver and prohibited restaurants from selling or giving it away. However, the law was overturned in 2015 on the grounds that regulating food ingredients is a federal matter under the Poultry Products Inspection Act.  In 2017, judges in the state’s 9th Circuit Federal Court of Appeals voted unanimously to reinstate the ban on foie gras. However in 2020, this court allowed individual buyers in California to purchase foie gras produced outside of the state. Most recently, in May 2022, the court upheld this ruling but rejected challenges to overturn the 2012 law. Over…
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