In addition, the President is directing the Department of Defense -- which buys about 95 million pounds of beef, 65 million pounds of pork, and 500, 000 pounds of lamb each year -- to explore ways to encourage its vendors to accelerate purchases of beef, pork, and lamb in order to buy more now and freeze it for later.

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Indeed, the shop prices of beef, pork, poultry and lamb are higher than in 1995, while the prices farmers get at markets are lower (see chart).

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Highland Council said its fresh beef, lamb and pork was sourced, slaughtered and prepared in the Highlands.

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Adding to the incongruence, the shipment ban applies to beef, chicken, lamb, pork and goat, but not to some other meats, including alligator, quail, venison, bison, elk and rabbit--so the elk bratwurst Rick Reams has sold at the Milwaukee Brewers stadium could be shipped across state lines.

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It said Welsh lamb's renown as a quality product was known worldwide, but its campaign was about more than just lamb, beef and pork.

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Crown cuts of veal and lamb are several times more costly than the pork and, to my way of thinking, several times less flavorful.

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They also have very good barbecue and a vast array of it, including hard to find beef ribs, the brontosaurus cut of the barbecue world, even rarer lamb ribs, and a choice of real pork or baby back ribs, whereas most have one or the other.

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Ten products, labelled as beef, were tested by QUB for traces of horsemeat and 10 processed lamb products were tested for cross-contamination with pork.

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The family-owned shop specializes in nothing less than the finest meats available, period, including natural lamb, natural veal, Berkshire pork, free range chickens from Amish and Mennonite farms in Pennsylvania, house cured hams and bacon, and most of all, beef.

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