To animal welfare activists, it's 'torture in a tin'; to gourmets – or at least some of them – it's a delicious delicacy.
Now Britain is set to ban the import of foie gras in a post-Brexit move that should delight anti-cruelty campaigners.
And someone very close to the seat of power at No 10, no doubt.
Sources said yesterday that Lord Goldsmith, the Animal Welfare Minister, is determined to implement the ban 'in the next few months'.
There's no more pressing concerns for his department to work on, then?
Last month, he congratulated Fortnum & Mason after the Queen's grocer announced that it would no longer stock the delicacy, usually sold as a pâté or mousse made from the enlarged livers. At the time, Lord Goldsmith tweeted: 'Foie gras is unbearably barbaric. It's hard to imagine anyone could watch the process and still enjoy eating it.'
Don't they say the same about sausages? Oh, and laws?
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