Well I'm off to the pub soon where we will be eating "haggis, tatties and neeps", whatever that is. I'm sure some of you will be doing the same, but as caring types I hope you'll bear the following in mind:
Make sure it's a free range organic haggis!!
Anyone who could still eat a battery haggis, after seeing the appalling conditions inside a 'modern' haggis shed, has no soul.
I've kept haggis for many years and the contrast between the happy inquisitive wee beasties that roam my garden and the poor creatures pumped full of hormones in foul cramped conditions is truly shocking.
The less that's said about what happens to the male haggis, the better...
It is indeed true that free-range haggis tastes so much better, but if you really think you can't afford the extra cost then why not consider the RSPCA-endorsed Freedom Food alternative? Although reared indoors, these "barn" haggises enjoy lower stocking densities, have access to natural light and are provided with simple objects with which to play and perch upon, thus allowing them to express many of their natural behaviours.
Much better, I hope you'll agree, than the shocking conditions in which the two-for-a-fiver haggis is produced. It's about time the supermarkets took a more responsible, ethical approach to the way our nation is fed.
