The haggis industry is on a mission; to create and promote the brand that is quality Scottish wild game. Scotland has a peerless larder of this healthy, flavoursome, natural produce. The challenge is to build awareness among chefs, restaurateurs and the public as a whole, of the diversity of product available and the many, many ways in which Haggis can be prepared and presented.

Highland haggis butchers at a recent training session

Haggis suffers from the dated perception that it is somewhat esoteric, even ‘common’, complicated to prepare and may have been hung until it has become a health hazard, with only the most dedicated epicure ready to risk its consumption. As a result, much of the best of this wonderful produce is exported and enjoyed overseas.

The reality is that times have changed and the haggis industry has certainly moved with them. There is now a concerted effort underway to educate the International palate, starting with our tourists. The haggis industry feedback is surprising; where Jamie Oliver went through the Labours of Hercules to get schoolchildren south of the Border to try even the most mainstream of healthy foods, Scottish children seem to take to haggis like the proverbial ducks to water.

But ....

HAGGIS MADE FROM CATS?

The Slaughter of Cats for Food

"The cats are stunned by electricity or percussion, and killed by cutting the blood vessels in the neck, causing exsanguination**. The halal and shechita** method, used by Moslems and Jews, involves cutting the neck without stunning the animals.

Shooting may be at close quarters, e.g. of horses, or from a distance, e.g. birds and rabbits. Fish caught at sea or by anglers die of asphyxia, when they are taken out of the water; anglers sometimes throw fish back after withdrawing the hooks; the fish may then die of inability to eat, or microbial or fungal infections. Trapping, snaring and hunting are rarely used in Britain for animals which are to be eaten."

** http://www.answers.com/exsanguination
***  http://www.answers.com/shechita

Little did Simon Bond think that there would be more than 101 Uses for a dead cat when he wrote his book.

Healer   Ann Rose

Tarot Cards
Crystal Healing

This cat put up a fight before being slaughtered and minced.

These dogs and ferret have been trained
 by a Ross-shire butcher to catch cats. 

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