Scotland to petition US to bring back haggis — theguardian.com

Senior aides to Barack Obama are to be urged to let traditional Scottish haggis back into the US by ending a decades-old import ban. The consumption of sheep lung, a key ingredient of haggis alongside heart and liver, has been banned in the US since 1971, while all British lamb has been banned since 1989 following the BSE crisis. The UK's environment secretary, Owen Paterson, will ask his US opposite number, Tom Vilsack, to end the ban during a meeting in the US today, and open up a market potentially worth millions to Scottish producers.

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