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American farmers will raise any livestock that they can make a profit on.
That isn't entirely true. There are no subsidies for lamb, so there aren't any farmers standing in line to jump into sheep herding. You might want to study history and look at the economic wars waged by cattle ranchers against sheep farmers, and war is not a misnomer here, since sheep farmers were often killed and their buildings and fields burned to the ground.
Because it doesn't go well with mashed potatoes and canned peas? Because it isn't enhanced very well with ketchup or barbecue sauce? Because "McSheep" doesn't sound catchy? Because American 'sheeple' think it is too close to cannibalism?
Shepherds pie! Lamb, mashed pos, peas - trifecta How is it any more like cannibalism than eating cows and pigs?
I have never found mutton in an American market but I had it when I was in Saudi Arabia. I liked it. It was much milder than lamb, which is too strong for my taste.
That isn't entirely true. There are no subsidies for lamb, so there aren't any farmers standing in line to jump into sheep herding. You might want to study history and look at the economic wars waged by cattle ranchers against sheep farmers, and war is not a misnomer here, since sheep farmers were often killed and their buildings and fields burned to the ground.
My neighbors ( who are beef farmers) would like to know what subsidies they supposedly gets that gives them an advantage over my friend who rauses sheep.
I have never found mutton in an American market but I had it when I was in Saudi Arabia. I liked it. It was much milder than lamb, which is too strong for my taste.
My suspicion is that was goat you ate not mutton, mutton is normally stronger than lamb since it's older. Chavre (goat meat) is normally somewhere between beef and lamb. Of course, all meat can taste differently depending on what the animal normally eats... some of the pastured animals can taste a bit gamier than confined/grain-fed regardless of the species because they're eating grass and weeds and whatnot that we're not used to tasting in our meat these days.
My neighbors ( who are beef farmers) would like to know what subsidies they supposedly gets that gives them an advantage over my friend who rauses sheep.
My suspicion is that was goat you ate not mutton, mutton is normally stronger than lamb since it's older. Chavre (goat meat) is normally somewhere between beef and lamb. Of course, all meat can taste differently depending on what the animal normally eats... some of the pastured animals can taste a bit gamier than confined/grain-fed regardless of the species because they're eating grass and weeds and whatnot that we're not used to tasting in our meat these days.
Hmmmmm......never thought it might be goat instead of mutton so I've been thinking all these years that I ate mutton and that mutton was milder than lamb. Whatever it was, it was pretty good.
He never cared for lamb meat and said mutton was about as bad as you can get.
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How is it any more like cannibalism than eating cows and pigs? 
Whatever it was, it was pretty good.
