In a victory for animal rights activists, the US supreme court yesterday allowed California to continue to ban foie gras, a delicacy produced from the enlarged livers of ducks and geese that have been force-fed corn.
Rejecting a legal challenge to the state law, the court declined to hear an appeal filed by restaurants and producers of foie gras. In doing so, it left intact an August 2013 ruling by the 9th US circuit court of appeals upholding the law.
California enacted the law in 2004 but it did not go into effect until 2012.
Foie gras is produced by force-feeding corn to ducks and geese to enlarge their livers.