Pro-Animal Future\u2019s 10-year plan calls for statewide factory-farming bans, while Butterworth\u2019s chef Bart Hutchins warns the campaign could eventually target other types of meat.<\/p>\n
WASHINGTON, D.C.\u2014 CodePink D.C. Coordinator Olivia DiNucci last month posted a TikTok video of herself in a home supporting an issue far afield from her usual battles supporting the Communist Party of Cuba and the Islamic Republic of Iran.<\/p>\n
This time, she was backing a local ballot measure, “Initiative 86,” introduced in early February in the D.C. City Council to ban foie gras, a fine-dining delicacy made from duck liver, and other products made from birds. D.C. residents will vote on the measure on election day with early voting already started.<\/p>\n
The campaign presents itself as a grassroots effort to advance animal welfare, but public financial filings reveal a far more heavily funded operation. A national animal-rights network has supplied hundreds of thousands of dollars in financial support, underwriting paid petition circulators, political consultants, staff salaries and advertising in a campaign that could reshape Washington\u2019s restaurant industry. Far from a shoestring local initiative, the effort has reported nearly half a million dollars in contributions and expenditures, much of it backed by an organization that openly describes local ballot measures as stepping stones toward a broader “pro-animal future.”<\/p>\n
WHO\u2019S FUNDING AMERICA\u2019S PROTEST UNREST? FOX NATION’S NEW ‘RIOT INC.’ FOLLOWS THE MONEY TO FIND OUT<\/p>\n
Olivia DiNucci, D.C. coordinator at CodePink, marches at an anti-Israel protest in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 10, 2026.(Brooke Curto\/Fox News Digital)<\/p>\n
A Fox News Digital investigation of campaign-finance records, nonprofit filings and the groups\u2019 own organizing documents traces the people, money and long-term strategy behind Initiative 86 and raises questions about how a fight over one luxury menu item became part of a much larger political campaign over what Americans eat.<\/p>\n
A political sign aimed at directing D.C. voters to select “yes” to banning foie gras in the district.(Brooke Curto\/Fox News Digital)<\/p>\n
Pro-Animal Future, a 501(c)(4) nonprofit based in Portland, Ore., launched the campaign, nicknamed I-86, in D.C. and says its local ballot efforts are part of a broader push to change public attitudes toward common animal agricultural practices. Its IRS filing also lists its name asPro-Animal DC.<\/p>\n
In seven financialreportsfiled with the D.C. Office of Campaign Finance, Pro-Animal DC provides a window into a local political campaign\u2019s operational, financial and logistical infrastructure.<\/p>\n
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