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cshenk

wrote in rec.food.cooking:

> On Sun, 03 Apr 2016 13:15:56 -0500, "cshenk" > wrote:
>
> > wrote in rec.food.cooking:
> >
> >>
> >> I believe US lamb is grain fed as opposed to grass grazing which
> >> accounts for different flavour.
> >
> > I think you will find we import most of the lamb today, much to the
> > dislike of our few lamb farms who wanted to keep the price
> > artifically high (and were instumental in our not having a catagory
> > for age of the 'lamb' I suspect).
> >
> > Due to history and beef cattle winning the battle here, sheep
> > became a high priced specialty. They were not all all amused when
> > the USA changed to allow exported lamb to come in at 30% or so the
> > price of USA grown. OZ folks were not amused either then their
> > prices went up but overall, their trade balance did well bringing
> > more money to the country from what I gather. Not sure if that
> > maintained the same good thing, but it was good to get imported
> > lamb here at last at a price that could be afforded.
>
> That's fine, but it doesn't alter what I said about grain vs grass
> fed.

I only know rice fed chicken is nasty. Really. It smells like it has
rotted.

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