Restaurant ruffles feathers with delicacy

MOSCOW, Idaho (AP) — An animal rights activist is planning a protest in the next several weeks over a local restaurant's serving of foie gras, a French delicacy obtained by using tubes to force-feed ducks and geese until their livers become saturated with fat.

"There are still a lot of people out there who don't know what foie gras is or how it's made," said Megan Prusynski, a member of PETA and the Humane Society of the United States. "When I heard there was a restaurant in Moscow serving it, I started talking to people about doing some kind of protest to raise people's awareness — maybe get it banned."

Francis Foucachon, who owns West of Paris, said protests against foie gras will not stop him from offering it on his menu when he gets more in. He sold out the foie gras he had in the first week.

"This is a group that was looking for something to use against my business and they found something," he told the Moscow-Pullman Daily News. "While I believe there are some valid concerns here, I'm not going to stop serving what people want. I will put foie gras on my menu again."