Does anyone know why lamb is so expensive? There are lots of them running around in fields but I have noticed that there isn't alot of it on the shelves in supermarkets. NZ legs of lamb are unusually expensive too- £27-30 per leg. There isn't the usual good volume of that either. Maybe the cost of flying it in with fuel costs rising is the answer to that. Animal food stuffs have risen too but sheep graze happily in fields. That can't have changed much over centuries.Why is our English lamb just out priced to the point no one or hardly any one can afford it? I asked a butcher friend and he said he believes our lamb is sold to France who then sell it on and often back to us- is this true? Ridiculous state of affairs. If our poor farmers get more from shipping it out and we are actually buying it back- some one is profiting from the nonsense and I doubt it is us.
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