Earlier this week the animal-rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court against Hot’s Kitchen, a popular Hermosa Beach restaurant, for violating the state’s consumer protection laws by continuing to sell foie gras after the state’s ban on the sale of the product took effect in July.
RELATED ARTICLESHot’s, along with other plaintiffs in Canada and New York, sued the state of California in July—seeking repeal of the ban shortly after it went into effect. And Hot’s, like a few others, as I noted in July, has given away free foie gras to customers who continue to demand it even after the ban took effect…..While I expect these and a few other noteworthy particulars will doom PETA’s case, this suit will lay bare a larger truth that I and a few others have long argued about California’s foie gras ban: It’s so vague as to be unenforceable in any manner that comports with constitutional requirements of due process.
After all, why hasn’t some governmental unit brought even one enforcement action in the state? Why isn’t Hermosa Beach enforcing the foie gras ban against Hot’s Kitchen?
LOL! They lose!
h/t Mrs. Weer’d
