Goat -- world's most popular meat?

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Apr 8, 2009 7:31 AM
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#14.Goats given as bride price and awards in lawsuits seems to make more sense compared to depreciating currencies in some countries.ha!ha!

transfer

Apr 9, 2009 5:22 AM
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Just asked. People LOVE to eat goat. Obviously I'm just not eating at the right places. Chicken is more popular though.

Goats would depreciate more slowly than the world economy, that would of course depend on the age of the goat - or the bride!

apusworld

Apr 13, 2009 5:02 AM
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Here in India, goat is what is sold as mutton - sheep would be pretty rare. So, if you consider the Indian population (even though most people would eat a much lower quantity of meat per year than in Western countries), that should be a lot of goat?

VinnyD

Apr 17, 2009 9:27 AM
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I just noticed that my local supermarket, which does not have a lot of exotica (La Choy chow mein noodles and El Paso taco shells are about their idea of sophisticated international cuisine) has goat meat from Charleville, Queensland. $12 US for a kilo of frozen stew-size boneless cubes.

arbon

Apr 18, 2009 4:40 PM
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The New York Time actually said...."goat is the most widely consumed meat in the world, a staple of, among others, Mexican, Indian, Greek and southern Italian cuisines."

Certainly not the most factory/commercial meat grown/produced.

BUT and this is what makes Goat so valuable and wide spread, it does not need very much care and medication, it also is a very multi-purpose animal, will live in more climates, than chickens, pigs, and other domesticated animals.

tribolite

Apr 18, 2009 9:39 PM
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Goats(not sheep) are normally prohibited from been reared or kept in large commercial tea,coffee,coco,rubber and oil plam plantations in Malaysia and Indonesia,especially if they are not penned in high enclosures.They can cause extensive damage to young, shoots,leaves and plants as they feed on all vegetation that they can physically reach.

Kerouac2

Apr 19, 2009 8:36 AM
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It's not by accident that the devil has the hooves of a goat.

tribolite

Apr 19, 2009 8:44 AM
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#22.Please explain the significance of the goat's hooves and the devil.

stephens9042

Apr 26, 2009 5:38 AM
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Any meat in an unspecified dish when I was in India or Nepal was assumed to be goat by my companions.

We stayed in a village and every meal was the same, occasionally the meat was chicken but mostly it was goat. I no longer eat meat but I've eaten it before and i enjoyed it.

Couldn't look at it now after seeing one have its throat slit.

VinnyD

Apr 26, 2009 8:02 AM
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Couldn't look at it now after seeing one have its throat slit.

When you were eating meat, did you have the idea that the animals had died of old age?

stephens9042

Apr 26, 2009 11:23 PM
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#25

Worse than that, when I first started eating meat I didn't even know that it came from animals!!!! Then when I went to school I heard rumours and they turned out to be true. Worse still they bombarded me with pictures of farmyard animals and songs about old mcdonald, while serving me chicken soup for lunch!

So its not surprising that I grew up with the ability to double think.

Truth be told though, what I meant is that seeing goat meat reminds me of a goat being killed and make me feel quite sick. Having not witnessed the demise of other animals the presence of their meat on a plate does not provoke the same physical response, not that I was unaware of how they died.

tribolite

Apr 27, 2009 12:44 AM
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