Would you eat a songbird… after you’ve tortured it?

Four French chefs want the cruel practice of eating ortolan, a tiny songbird, to be un-banned once a year.

Four French chefs are requesting a waiver to serve a long-banned delicacy – a small songbird called the ortolan that fans used to devour, bones and all, while wearing a napkin over their heads. It’s even said to have been part of former French president Francois Mitterrand’s last meal before he died in 1996.