 Man, what is going on? Meetless Mondays, everyone seems to be going vegan, 5G is rolling out, you can't drive your car in New York on certain streets anymore. In just a few years, New York City is going to be the ultimate new world order place to be. I've brought up foie gras quite a few times in daily conversations and a lot of people don't actually know what it is, understandable as it's a luxury food. Foie gras is fatty duck liver, the ducks are fattened using a gavage feeding method, involving a type of funnel put down the duck's throat, filled with grains, this is deemed as cruel, therefore foie gras has been banned in New York City effective 3 years from now in 2022. Now, there is foie gras that is ethically made, letting the ducks fatten themselves on pasture, but even so, duck liver is delicious without being fattened, chicken liver is delicious. These foods are comparable, but foie gras does have a unique texture, it's like liver butter, and a slightly more unique flavor, but I really do enjoy duck liver just as much as foie gras. If you guys haven't seen, there is a great TED talk by Dan Barber, if you want to understand more about foie gras, why it's such a luxury food as well as raising it naturally. We know foie gras is very expensive and prized in the United States, but in countries like Spain, it's dirt cheap, you can eat it on every single corner every day, and it's something that the French consume on a regular basis. The primary concern here is what's next, are they going to ban veal, ban feedlot beef, are they going to try to stop McDonald's from selling chicken nuggets, I mean the vegans already tried that, but McDonald's makes a little too much money to put up with that nonsense. What the general public doesn't seem to realize is that the pork, chicken, and beef they eat from the supermarket is raised in cooler conditions than the ducks being used for foie gras. Yes, these animals aren't being force fed, but they usually have less space in proximity with far more animals, are much sicker being pumped full of antibiotics, really just being less cared for in general. There is an argument that ducks don't have a gag reflex and are not experiencing discomfort when they are being force fed. I guess you could say the same thing about certain New York City boys and girls, but we'll save that for another time. The fattening of the liver is something that is inherent to certain migratory birds, duck and geese, as they gorge before migration so that they have enough calories to make it to their destination. These animals naturally store fat in their liver. It's not like a human getting fatty liver, a cow, a goat, a sheep. These animals do not store fat in their liver like ducks do, like geese do. Of course, this fattening in nature wouldn't be as drastic as foie gras, but what we're doing now with feedlot beef, with how we raise conventional pork, we're stuffing the animals full of corn and soy and it's as detrimental to their health as feeding these ducks corn several times a day. The bill was introduced by Councilwoman Carlina Rivera, which also included a bill that will prevent carriage horses from working in the summer when it is 80 degrees or more outside. The current threshold being 90 degrees. After a quick look at her Twitter, I guess Big Broccoli is cutting her a check to propose this. To clarify, this bill bars the sale of foie gras produced by force feeding birds, punishable by a $2,000 fine. But as we said, foie gras does not have to be force fed and to determine if it was legally produced seems like something that is impossible, let alone something you could enforce, but under the law it will be assumed that all foie gras is force fed unless documentary evidence is provided to the contrary. This reminds me of the current justice system. It's supposed to be innocent until proven guilty, what we all know that's not the case. As soon as something negative is brought up about somebody else in the media, oh they're guilty, they're such a horrible personation they don't deserve to be here. The appeal to authority, the hive mind mentality is so strong, especially in America. And this is just the government taking more and more control. We have meatless Mondays, as we mentioned earlier, now they're banning foie gras, you can't have it in restaurants. Instead of letting the customers educate themselves and determine the market, the government takes more and more with the population being too sheepish to do anything. California has had a history of foie gras bans as well, being banned in 2012, which was overturned in 2015. Then in 2017, the ban was upheld backed by the Supreme Court in 2019. Chicago also passed a ban on foie gras in 2006, lifting it two years later. As usual, government intervention tends to only hurt people. Hundreds of people will potentially lose their jobs as millions of dollars in revenue will disappear. I'm assuming these farms are just going to change the way they raise the ducks and continue to sell foie gras as well as duck meat. The consumer will suffer as well. People who want to spend money and experience this product might not be able to in general. And even if they are, the price is likely to increase with the change in farming methods. And I really need to emphasize that meat in the supermarkets, pork, beef, chicken, eggs, farm raised fish, these animals are not in any better conditions than these ducks. The ducks are probably better off, as I said, except they have the forest feeding aspect, but is more conducive to biology than other animals. Pigs, chickens, and cows get very, very sick when they are stuffed full of corn and soy, so they need to be put on antibiotics in much larger doses. Yes, chickens are more tolerant to grains as well as ducks, but this is dependent on the feed quality. And by no means is foie gras a health food. You know, you're stuffing these animals full of corn and soy that's likely sprayed with agrochemicals and all those toxins and omega-6 are accumulating in the liver. Not to mention duck liver is several times higher in iron than other animal livers. I actually had a problem with this and my consumption of duck liver over several months in large amounts is probably why my fortune was so high and could be the cause for all of my hypothetical health problems. You know, I was buying foie gras from a chef the scraps and eating like half a pound to a pound of it a day because it's delicious, you know, it's high in certain vitamins, but I didn't realize how much I could have been harming my health based on, you know, those toxins accumulating in the liver. Definitely not something to be consumed on a regular basis, you know, maybe on a special occasion. As I said, opt for the regular chicken liver opt for the regular duck liver. To me, it's just as enjoyable, but this isn't about foie gras. This isn't about animals. This is about our rights being taken away slowly, but surely and how things are going in America right now. And it's safe to say the new generation is happy to let the government take it all away. The type of person who is afraid of adversity, afraid of challenging themselves in life is becoming more common. Yes, having government babysit you all day, giving you universal basic income is appealing to certain people. But that leads to a society no one wants to be a part of. Thank you guys for joining me today. If you could above all, please share the video. If you guys haven't subscribed, you know, you can hit that bell icon, of course, like the video. If you guys do want to support me further, check out Frankie's free range meat. We do have pastured chicken liver available. If you guys wanted to try it out, you guys can also check out Frankie's naturals, minimal ingredients, minimally processed. You guys do want to reach out to me for consultations pertaining to your health. You can shoot me an email, frankatefanoatch email.com. Thanks again, guys, and enjoy the rest of your day.