AR-News: (US TX) No kidding goats popular

[Animalara2003 at aol.com]

Jamaicans eat their goats curried or barbecued, which they call "jerk." 
Some Pakistanis use goat legs to make soup. 
And along the Rio Grande, locals have been eating cabrito, or barbecued goat 
kid, since before Sam Houston was born. 
While Americans tend to think of meat as coming from a cow or a pig, much of 
the rest of the world eats goat. Now the rest of the world is moving to 
America, and ranchers are beginning to recognize a lucrative trend. 
"The consumption of goat has increased dramatically over the last decade," 
said John Sykes, assistant general manager of the Houston Livestock Show and 
Rodeo. In line with that, the livestock show has focused more on goats every 
year, he said. 
Just how substantially that market has increased is not clearly understood, 
because the federal government does not keep readily available statistics on 
goat-meat consumption.






full story:

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/metropolitan/2437935 
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