A Note on Lamb Consumption

This is a tragedy for our great nation:

"To tell the truth, Americans don't eat much lamb, let alone mutton. For all the lamb chops consumed in WASP-y households, all the legs of lamb eaten on Easter and all the lamb shanks that seem as common these days on restaurant menus as strip steaks, we consume on average only slightly more than a pound a year for each adult, compared with 50 pounds of pork and 65 pounds of beef. New Zealanders eat 40 pounds of lamb apiece every year and Greeks eat 31."

Don't let America fall behind! Eat lamb.

(Photo credit: Lamb Day Parade participants, 1984, by Richard Menzies)