It is currently illegal to import it into the USA. What is your position on this?
It is currently illegal to import it into the USA. What is your position on this?
The import ban is based upon health concerns, namely the BSE issue. Our Scottish Friends assure us that it's fine, and that they have the most stringent BSE controls in the world. Is that good enough, in the event of an outbreak? I don't know. I'm not sure that anyone knows for sure, given the time required for evidence of BSE to be detectable in an affected person. But by that measure I shouldn't be eating my occasional steak or hamburger, which I believe is essential for proper health :-)
And I of course refuse to do that.
So, I'm guessing that once again this is a matter of the various US Government agencies taking far longer to make policy changes than they need to. They love to ban things quickly, but most Governments take forever to un-ban them.
So, my position is that if haggis passes the same food safety controls that meat products do in the USA, people should be allowed to import it, buy it and eat it, and take their chances with it just as I do when I eat a steak.