No more foie gras in New York City because it’s cruel to force-feed ducks and geese to make their livers tastier? A bill introduced in the City Council by member Carlina Rivera, who represents lower Manhattan, would outlaw its sale, as The Post reported on Monday.

But like many politically correct council brainstorms, it’s not really about humane treatment of animals. It’s a selective-outrage thumb in the eye, or the gullet, of the “rich.” Who eats foie gras except the rich?

Many animals and sea creatures are brutalized before they’re brought to our tables. We ignore it because our lives wouldn’t be the same without the pleasure that meat and fish provide.

Rivera gave away the game when she said that foie gras “is not part of the diet of everyday New Yorkers . . . this is truly a luxury item.”

If it’s so rare, why make a stink over it while ignoring the annual mass slaughter and torment of millions of other creatures?

Staples such as chicken and pork, unlike foie gras, aren’t favored delicacies of the rich — so banning them is beyond the interest of Rivera and like-minded Councilmember Justin Brennan.

If fatty liver is outlawed, count on animal-rights zealots to go after the next convenient atrocity. Take lobsters, which surely don’t enjoy being boiled alive.

You might say: who cares about lobsters, which are so dumb they don’t even know they’re lobsters — mere “insects,” as Woody Allen observed in “Annie Hall.”

Well, what about pork, which appears on nearly every menu? Pigs are intelligent, highly aware creatures which some people keep as pets.

According to Cambridge University professor Dr. Donald Broom, as cited in a PETA newsletter, they’re so bright that they can even play video games.

Yet some 120 million pigs are killed to be eaten in the US every year. Before they meet their makers, most sows suffer in crates too small for them to move. They suffer much longer than force-fed ducks — many are repeatedly impregnated for up to three years. Luckless male piglets are castrated, without benefit of OxyContin, to purge them of unpleasant “boar” flavor.

PETA calls chickens “the most abused animals on the planet.” Most spend their lives in “total confinement.” Over-feeding and drugs blow them up to such unnatural sizes that they collapse under their own weight. Egg-laying breeder hens are ground up alive or suffocated in plastic bags.

I’d rather not watch ducks being force-fed — or other kinds of animals going through hell, either.

But I won’t give up eating them. Those who can’t handle it should stick to their leaves and beans — and let the rest of us, rich and poor, eat what we want.