{"id":305481,"date":"2026-07-25T14:18:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T14:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/305481\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T14:18:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T14:18:10","slug":"nycs-foie-gras-sales-ban-set-for-final-appeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/305481\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC’s foie gras sales ban set for final appeal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Their goose isn\u2019t cooked yet!<\/p>\n

New York\u2019s foie gras farmers are making one last stand against the Big Apple\u2019s ban<\/a> on the French delicacy \u2014 taking their fight to court once again.<\/p>\n

Lawyers for La Belle Farm and Hudson Valley Foie Gras will be filing a new plea to the New York State Court of Appeals on Monday in a bid to stop the 2019 City Council ban on foie gras, which is made from deliberately enlarged duck and goose liver, which critics say is cruel process.<\/p>\n

The foie gras ban in NYC has yet to take effect and upstate farmers are hoping to save their feathers with another appeal. Boston Globe via Getty Images<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re fighting to protect our family, our employees, and our way of life,\u201d Sergio Saravia, whose family has operated La Belle Farm in Ferndale, N.Y., for nearly 30 years, told The Post.<\/p>\n

Foie gras distributors warned<\/a> that losing access to the traditional dish holds deeper significance.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a shame for the liberties, gastronomy in general, and quality of life,\u201d said Ariane Daguin, daughter of famous French chef Andre Daguin. She co-founded and ran specialty food distributor D\u2019Artagnan for 40 years.<\/p>\n

\u201cI come from a region in France where foie gras is sacred. Where it is considered the most delicious food in the world,\u201d she said of the Gascony region, where he father once ran a two star Michelin restaurant.<\/p>\n

Sergio Saravia\u2019s family has operated La Belle Farms for nearly thirty years and he wants to preserve their way of life. Courtesy of Sergio Saravia<\/p>\n

Daguin also shot down claims from animal rights activists who claim the forced feeding that is required to create foie gras is a cruel practice.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe know that the way we raise them does not hurt or does not stress the duck or geese. We know that. We live it,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you ban foie gras\u2026 you should ban chicken factory farming because that is much more stressful for the animal,\u201d said Daguin, adding, \u201cI think that will be the next step.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ariane Daguin told The Post that foie gras is \u201csacred\u201d and that losing the right to eat it would be a cultural abomination. Bloomberg via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Daguin noted that not a single City Council member accepted her invitation to tour foie gras farms while the ban was being considered back in 2019.<\/p>\n

The ban has been in contention since it was passed \u2014 first being struck down by the New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets in 2019, saying local municipalities must abide by state rules.<\/p>\n

That determination was appealed by the city in Albany State Supreme Court \u2014 which upheld the commissioner\u2019s ruling. The city appealed again in the Appellate Division, Third Department, which then upheld NYC\u2019s ban in March<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will be asking the Court of Appeals to hear the case,\u201d said farmer\u2019s attorney, Edward J. Phillips of Keane & Beane, P.C.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe lower court\u2019s ruling is unprecedented and leaves all farmers across the state vulnerable to similar sales bans by municipalities.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Their goose isn\u2019t cooked yet! New York\u2019s foie gras farmers are making one last stand against the Big…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305482,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[8254,1457,301,2803,2474,115705,57,9,56,63,65,64,821,58],"class_list":["post-305481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-agriculture","tag-animals","tag-city-council","tag-court","tag-food-trends","tag-french-dining","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-restaurants","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}