The Obama administration is evidently considering lifting a 21-year-old ban on the importation of authentic haggis from Scotland. For the uninitiated, haggis consists of the minced heart, lungs, and liver of a sheep mixed with salt, pepper, oats, and suet and cooked inside the sheep's stomach (which is consumed, much like the casing on a sausage). This "culinary delight" was banned because of concerns about possible transmission of scrapie, a spongiform encephalopathy common in sheep and closely related to "mad cow disease." Apparently, those fears have proved unfounded, but for the life of me, I cannot imagine who in their right mind would eat such a thing (I mean, seriously, who first had this idea?), nor whose life would be made poorer by lack of access to authentic Scottish haggis.If big government won't protect you from a haggis invasion, just what will it protect you from?
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