On Wed, 17 Aug 2011 09:46:45 +0000 (UTC), Hackmatack
> wrote:

>Leon Manfredi > wrote:
>> On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 20:12:02 +0000 (UTC), Hackmatack
>
>> I don't think that it's because of popularity, I suspect that is because it's
>> not plentiful, which results in "expensive".
>
>Presumably an increase in demand would produce an increase in supply and
>eventually a reduction in price. There are probably some inherent reasons
>why lamb production can never rival beef production, though. Sheep require
>a lot of grazing land, for one thing, and are not amenable to the CAFO
>system ("concentrated animal feeding operations"). Not, that is, until
>American industrial farmlng figures out a way to fatten lamb as unnaturally
>as it fattens cattle. Just give them time!

Around here, sheep roam and graze on government land overseen by
Basque sheepherders. We see less of that than we did when we moved
here years ago, but it still goes on.
That still doesn't mean that lamb is available in the market.
Janet US