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Goats in New York City?

That's right ... thousands of West Texas-raised goats and lambs go to theEast Coast every year to supply a growing ethnic population. The largestshipment will take place this week.

Most of the sheep and goats sold in San Angelo every year are purchased andshipped to New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania markets where they areslaughtered and eaten in celebration of ethnic religious holidays, saidBenny Cox, sheep sales manager for Producers Livestock Auction.

Cox said the firm's first sale of 2006 is the only one before the Muslim''Holiday of Sacrifice.'' He said for the last eight years, Muslim buyershave attended the sale and purchased animals for their customers. The buyersprefer young goats, he said.''

It takes 35 hours to truck the goats to the East Coast, and the Muslimcustomers require that the animals arrive alive. Being fresh is a bigfactor, so the goats are slaughtered on arrival with the head remaining onthe carcass,'' Cox said......

''The goat industry in the United States is one of the fastest-growingsegments in American agriculture,'' said Robert Swize, executive director ofthe American Boer Goat Association.(MORE)login: whocares(AT)Idont.com pwd: wassup

It remoins me of that article where modest clothing was finding an ever increasing market :))