An animal rights group called Direct Action Everywhere staged a protest Sunday outside the festival pavilion at Fort Mason where Eat Drink SF was taking place. As Eater reports, the dozen or so protesters chanted "It’s not food, it’s violence," starting around 12:30 p.m., and their action included a naked man covered in fake blood and wrapped in cellophane on top of what was supposed to look like a styrofoam meat tray.

Activist Zach Groff tells Eater, "By having an actual human in what was made to resemble a meat container, we hope to make the point that just as he has friends, families, loved ones, and a life he loves that he doesn't want to lose, so do animals."

Gwyneth Borden, executive director of the Golden Gate Restaurant Association which organized the event, tells Eater, "It’s always useful to have lively conversations around food and why it matters, and we were prepared and designated a safe space for them. We obviously don't agree, but it’s their constitutional right to protest."

While the protest appears to have been about the consumption of animal products in general, Eat Drink SF did feature a booth by one of the nation's two remaining foie gras producers, Hudson Valley Foie Gras. On Friday that booth was serving small cones of foie gras ice cream, as well as duck ham and cheese sandwiches with foie gras butter. The latter were very delicious.

As you may recall, after California's legislature passed the ban on the creation and sale of the fatty duck liver, and after the ban took effect in 2012, California's only foie gras producer Sonoma Artisan Foie Gras had to go out of business. The ban was subsequently struck down by a federal judge in 2015, who said that the banning of the sale of foie gras from other states in California violated the regulatory domain of the federal government over interstate commerce.

Previously: The Best Thing At Eat Drink SF Was This Burrata Doughnut