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Voters for animal rights organize By ERNIE GARCIA Published in THE JOURNAL NEWS 9/8/06:
http://www.lohud.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060908/NEWS02/609080388/1018
(Original publication: September 8, 2006) Westchester's animal rights advocates are launching a voters group that
will push for countywide bans on rodeos, circuses and goose and duck liver
pat�. The League of Humane Voters of Westchester will recruit voters who can
persuade candidates and officials to support animal-friendly policies, said
Kiley Blackman, the league's chairwoman. Besides advocating for bans on gourmet liver spread such as foie gras,
which involves force-feeding, the group wants the county to operate a pet
neutering vehicle and to require fire sprinklers in all commercial animal
housing. The group will outline its legislative agenda at 7 p.m. Sept. 29 at the
Greenburgh Town Hall. League members have already contacted the county legislature's committee
on legislation, whose July agendas note letters on rodeos, animal acts,
goose liver and mobile neutering. Blackman and another group she heads, Animal Defenders of Westchester,
have enjoyed some success in animal bans. Greenburgh enacted a ban against circuses and rodeos in 2002. That same
year Mount Vernon declined to let a rodeo return to Memorial Field after
Blackman and her group asked the city to ban rodeos. Mount Vernon officials
said they barred the rodeo because of damage to the park. Their work comes at a time of increasing pressure on foie gras producers.
Chicago recently enacted a ban on fattened goose and duck liver, on the
grounds that it is an abusive practice. Similar efforts are afoot in New
York. In June, the Humane Society of the United States filed an action with the
state Department of Agriculture and Markets to have foie gras declared an
adulterated food product, which would ban its sale. Two bills in the state Legislature would ban the force feeding of ducks
and geese in New York. Marcus Henley, manager of the Hudson Valley Foie Gras Farm in Ferndale,
N.Y., said his product cannot be produced by letting the birds eat at will.
He said the Chicago ban, which is being challenged, has boosted sales for
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