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General & History
Who Eat's Sheep & Goat?
Jews are free to eat lamb and goat provided it has been ritually
slaughtered. In the religion's land of origin, the Near East, lamb
dominates because there is no lush grazing land, so lamb is important to
Jewish culture worldwide.
Islam adopted most of it's dietary law from Judaism, and
is also predominantly a religion of less fertile regions. While beef is
not forbidden, it can't be economically raised in those regions so lamb is
the meat of choice.
Southeast Asia: Muslim areas including the far south of Thailand,
most of Malaysia and Indonesia, favor lamb, but it's not so common there
and buffalo predominates.
India: In areas of India that were under Muslim occupation for
some time, such as the Punjab and Hyderabad, lamb is preferred, but goat is
the most comon meat in India. Recipes can confuse you because during the Raj
the British were pleased to call goat "mutton" to make it taste better.
Christians, largely recruited from the Pagans, brough a lot
of paganism with them. Rejecting the religious prohibitions of Judaism they
eat whatever is economical in the region. In the Near East and other less
fertile areas that will be sheep and goat.
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