Why Does California Hate Yummy Things?

Oh, California, land of fruits and nuts.  First they came for the shark's fin soup.  Now they're coming for the foie gras.  Sure, you can say that these things are specialty items that most people don't eat often, and you'd be right, but that's not the point.  It's about the principle of the thing.  It's also the utter regard for food culture and culinary history. It's doubly also the incrementalism and government interference.  I quote from the foie gras story:

“I want people to have the freedom to eat what they want,” said [chef] Ludo Lefebvre ... “Animal rights people would turn everyone into a vegan if they could. I don’t want animal rights people to tell me what to eat. Today it’s foie gras. Tomorrow it’s going to be chicken, or beef.”

Preach it!  I also find extremely interesting this additional tidbit:

This is not the first time a community has tried to ban foie gras. It was outlawed in Chicago in 2006, producing a backlash from restaurants that, speakeasy-like, served foie gras secretly. The ban lasted barely two years.

Well, well, well.  How people refuse to learn anything from Prohibition!