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    1. Commercial-Pear-543 on

      Societal trend with numerous causes, when this happens someone ends up drawing the short straw and this time it’s sheep farmers.

      Cost of living is a biggie. Mutton and lamb are not cheap compared to chicken.

      People also want more protein in their diets nowadays, which means some people are consuming more meat than they used to. Far more cost effective to use chicken if you’re a meat eater.

      And there are more people who just don’t eat meat at all now.

    2. Old-Reputation-78 on

      That’s really odd, because the farmers around my area (not in Yorkshire) are starting sheep farming. Speaking to one of them, they said that it’s a no-brainer due to the high price of lamb and relatively low out-lays. There are thousands of the cloudy, fluffy buggers everywhere around me now.

    3. SebastianVanCartier on

      >[S]heep are only ever trying to do one of three things: “Escape, or die, or escape and then immediately die.”

      lol

    4. rice_fish_and_eggs on

      If we’re getting all this cheap lamb from NZ and Australia why is a decline in domestic production pushing the price up so high? I love lamb, it’s my favourite meat but I can’t justify paying £20+ on a leg of lamb when a whole chicken is less than a fiver.

    5. MSweeny81 on

      From a very quick look;

      500g beef mince 20% fat £4.25
      500g lamb mince 20% fat £7

      2 Pork Chops 400g £4.30
      2 Lamb Loin Chops 230g £7.07

      Pork Leg 2kg £26
      Shin of Beef 2kg £24
      Leg of Lamb 2kg £41.80

      Tastes and fashions change, but lamb being nearly double the cost of pork and beef probably has a fair bit to do with it.

    6. bmwkag1407 on

      Those fuckin’ dinner plates are out of control, coming over here and taking over our hills.

    7. MrFeatherstonehaugh on

      I often drive over the M62 and notice the paltry numbers of sheep grazing. I reckon we could get hundreds of thousands more up there and bring the price right down. I am not a farmer.

      Meanwhile, we have to get more people eating lamb. Perhaps we could get the sinister 80’s pork man out of retirement for a lamb advert.

    8. Both-Mud-4362 on

      I used to eat a lot of lamb and mutton. But in recent years it has become extremely fatty and the kind of fat that doesnt melt away in the cooking process.

      So in recent years I’ve stopped buying it. Also it has become quite expensive compared to cheaper options like chicken or quorn.

    9. SongsOfDragons on

      I miss lamb. At this point we have it once a year when we go to Mam’s. Too expensive.

    10. Valuable_Can9442 on

      Peak sheep is here. Rewilding good, but imports suck for farmers.

    11. Competitive_Pen7192 on

      Lamb is expensive and fatty…

      I just stick with beef or chicken mostly due to the price.

    12. Front_Mention on

      Same thing when someone asks the question ‘why isnt my house selling’ its always price. I have eaten lamb in near a decade as its so expensive. If thats the price of farming then unfortunately its nkt economically viable

    13. Enigma_Green on

      The random dog attacks that are attacking when being walled near the lands where dogs are off the leash had some up to 14 sheep injured in one go, alot of being killed too that keeps happening.

    14. NGeoTeacher on

      I did some online shopping the other day and brought a leg of lamb for £15. I foolishly didn’t double check the weight. When the delivery guy came I thought they’d forgotten the lamb – I couldn’t see it. Turns out, I actually brought a half leg of lamb, 0.8 kg.

      I’m making lamb tagine tonight and it had better be the best thing I’ve ever cooked.

      Remembering why I never buy lamb.

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