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!

Quit the political BS... tell the truth... lamb STINKS!!!