Council pols: Dish is foie beyond pale

It’s a jungle out there.

A City Council committee on Tuesday passed a plethora of plans aimed at doing everything from protecting our feathered friends to establishing “Meatless Mondays” citywide.

The Council’s Health Committee unanimously passed a ban on selling foie gras. A longtime staple of the city’s fanciest restaurants, activists view it as cruel to ducks and geese that are fattened in order to produce the delicacy.

“The Council has been empathetic to the suffering of animals and has looked for policies to help alleviate that suffering, whether they are domestic animals, whether it’s … examining our diet or looking at animals that are used for work,” Health Committee Chairman Mark Levine (DManhattan) told the Daily News.

“We believe that as society evolves, we need to ask business to adapt,” he added.

Under another measure, the city will ban the trafficking of wild birds.

It will also become illegal to operate horse carriage rides when the “equine heat index” — or, the air temperature plus the relative humidity — is 150 degrees or above.

NYCLASS, the group behind an aggressive but unsuccessful push to ban horse carriages at Central Park, applauded the move.

“There are 35 days last year where this law would provide some relief for these carriage horses where at the hottest part of the day, they wouldn’t have to work,” said NYCLASS spokesman Chris Coffey.

The committee also passed a resolution calling on state lawmakers to give tax breaks for adopting an animal from a shelter.

Last but not least, the panel approved a resolution supporting Meatless Mondays citywide.

“The Meatless Mondays resolution is in some ways symbolic, but it speaks to a bigger push to in different ways try to move — especially food for kids — away from processed meats and get it to be more and more plant-based,” said Sarah Crean, a spokeswoman for resolution sponsor Councilwoman Helen Rosenthal (D-Manhattan).