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I was surprised the lack if sheep areas. Is lamb not a popular meat in USA?

Just looked up wool production and didn't realise how much Australia produces: https://blog.bizvibe.com/blog/textiles-and-garments/top-10-l...

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> Is lamb not a popular meat in USA?

It’s not exactly rare, but it’s far less popular than beef, pork, or chicken.

It's not popular, and what lamb is grown there is generally also a very mild flavour as far as lamb goes, being less gamey than lamb found in other countries.

The Wild West preferred cattle, and cattlemen, plus inertia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheep_Wars

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Range_war

It’s too hot for them in most of the agricultural centers in the USA. Plenty of goats though.

Goat milk is relatively common, but I've not seen goat meat for quite awhile.

Lamb is available most places, but usually more expensive. Walmart carries it!

A good number of places in Texas serve goat neat, it just gets called cabrito.

https://www.texasmonthly.com/food/on-the-menu-cabrito/

As opposed to all the sheep in famously temperate Australia? :)

The temperature argument doesn't stack up to me. Have you got a source?

I was also curious since there were historically Basque sheepherders in Northern Nevada, which is generally not very cool, although the mountain summer ranges are somewhat cooler.

It’s not popular in Australia either. It’s available, but everyone eats chicken, pork or beef.

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