The owner of Downtown 140 was cited with disorderly conduct after protests over Labor Day weekend.

The Cleveland Coalition Against Foie Gras staged the protests seeking to get the dish removed from a Hudson restaurant.

Protests during Labor Day weekend at a downtown Hudson restaurant over one of its menu offerings led to charges against the restaurant’s owner and two of the protesters.

The Cleveland Coalition Against Foie Gras organized the latest in a series of pickets Aug. 29-31 outside Downtown 140 over the restaurant's use of foie gras, a pâté made from fattened liver from geese or ducks.

To make foie gras, ducks and geese are typically fed through metal pipes forced down their throats, enlarging their livers in a process known as gavage, according to Humane World for Animals

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