In April 2006, Chicago voted 48 to 1 to ban a single food — not a drug, not a poison, a slice of liver. Today foie gras is illegal to sell in California and India won’t let it in. Yet French law protects it as national heritage.
Milo follows the goose back 4,000 years: an Egyptian tomb at Saqqara, Roman figs (the reason “foie” and “hígado” come from a fig!), a Strasbourg chef in 1779, a hot dog stand that turned a $250 fine into free advertising, an eight-year fuse in California, a court war in New York that is still not over — and a Spanish farmer whose foie gras won in Paris even though, by French law, it isn’t foie gras at all.
⏱️ Chapters
– 0:00 ▸ A ban on a slice of liver
– 1:24 ▸ Four thousand years of fat geese
– 3:17 ▸ The tube
– 4:40 ▸ The first bans
– 5:40 ▸ Chicago’s hot dog rebellion
– 7:03 ▸ California’s long fuse
– 8:49 ▸ New York’s turn
– 10:12 ▸ France says non
– 11:22 ▸ The man who let the geese choose
– 12:46 ▸ So why is it banned?
💬 Should foie gras be banned? And would you eat it if no tube was ever used?
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