"Why would they pick this and not anything else? How about veal? How about chicken? How about steak? Beef? How about fish?... All of a sudden you can question any type, basically, anything that can be served in a restaurant. The poor snails and the mussels and the shrimp. I could go on and on. The lobsters."
--Mayor Richard Daley in the Chicago Tribune talking about the ban on foie gras