sf > wrote in message >. ..
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> If you're in the US, we have "Truth in Labeling" here. If
> you're not, you're at the whim of your country's laws.

Which means, all a butcher in the US has to do in order to sell mutton
and call it lamb is to get the USDA to agree that mutton is lamb.

In the US, meat from a sheep less than one year old at slaughter is
"lamb", even though meat from a sheep approaching one year looks,
smells, cuts, and tastes exactly like mutton.

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Chris Green