Comments on: Goat Farming https://www.isegoria.net/2010/09/goat-farming/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Wed, 29 Apr 2026 21:58:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Isegoria https://www.isegoria.net/2010/09/goat-farming/comment-page-1/#comment-20319 Isegoria Sat, 11 Sep 2010 14:07:14 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=21945#comment-20319 I had an Indian friend refer to goat meat as mutton, and that struck me as odd, because mutton is (adult) sheep meat, but apparently that usage is common in South Asia. The modern fashionable term for goat meat is chevon meat, from the French.

A few years back we had an Irish friend living near DC who wanted to hold a Thanksgiving dinner for the other non-Americans at her work. Since one couple was Muslim, our friend went to the local Muslim market to get a halal turkey. She called us in a panic, asking us Americans how to prepare a Thanksgiving turkey, because the bird she bought still had the neck. No, that’s not normal, we had to explain to her.

Around that same time, the admin at my work was trying to get everything prepared for a small conference our firm was holding in southern Utah, and one of the attendees was Muslim and requested halal food. So she found a place online, and their big, bold slogan, plastered across their web page, was Hand-slaughtered by a Muslim!. This was not that long after 9/11, around the time of the Iraq invasion. I guess we weren’t in their target demographic.

]]> By: Genius https://www.isegoria.net/2010/09/goat-farming/comment-page-1/#comment-20290 Genius Sat, 11 Sep 2010 11:15:41 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=21945#comment-20290 I love goat meat (can’t remember if there’s a specific name for it). I also have a Greek friend who grew up in the DC area whose father would get a goat every year and roast it for Greek easter. Or maybe it was a lamb, I never got the story straight.

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