Gasp! Actual reporting regarding foie gras and whether it is inhumane. An excellent article in this week’s City Paper as David Snyder actually visits America’s largest foie gras farm.

Liver Let Die [City Paper]
Foie Gras – A Bird’s Eye View [PhilaFoodie]
Hudson Valley Foie Gras [Flickr]

The controversy regarding foie gras continues to roar as some Philadelphia restaurants have taken it off the menu while others have staunchly refused.

City’s foie gras foes put heat on chefs [Philadelphia Inquirer]

Stu Bykofsky describes an ugly incident outside Le Bec-Fin between a drunk customer and four people protesting Le Bec-Fin for serving foie gras.

Problems began when a Le Bec-Fin patron – a fiftyish, big-bellied, white male, well-dressed and drunk, according to all accounts – left Le Bec-Fin and got in [protester Dezeray] Rubinchik’s face. “At 6-5, the man was quite intimidating as he stood so close to me, yelling in my face,” says Rubinchik, 29.

And speaking of foie gras, is it as cruel as people say it is? The Truth About Foie Gras [Claasic Wines] via PhilaFoodie.

Cops failed us, say Le Bec-Fin Foie Gras 4 [Philadelphia Daily News]

If you’re looking for foie gras, scratch Stephen Starr restaurants off the list.

Stephen Starr, owner of 11 of the city’s premiere restaurants, has removed the French delicacy, a fattened duck or goose liver, from his Philadelphia menus due to what he has called “incredible amount of protest.”

Craving foie gras? Look beyond Stephen Starr [Daily Pennsylvanian]