Phil Mercer, Australia Herds Profits From Feral Goat Meat. BBC, May 20, 2014
www.bbc.com/news/business-27481375
Quote:
“Australia is the world's largest exporter of goat meat,
feral goats in Australia “arrived with the first European settlers
“Australia's goat exports have doubled in the past decade. While much is sold to the United States and Taiwan, there is a growing appetite elsewhere in Asia [including China].
Note:
(a) The English and Catalan surname mercer signifies “a trader, from Old French mercier, Late Latin mercarius (an agent derivative of merx, genitive mercis, ‘merchandise’).”
(b) “In the next compound are larger billies capable of breaking bones or even killing cattle dogs.”
billy (n; probably from the name Billy; First Known Use 1820): "billy goat"
, which in turn is defined as
“a male goat”
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/billy+goat
(c) feral goats “are mustered on larger properties using gyrocopters or planes”
autogyro
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autogyro
(also known as gyroplane, gyrocopter, or rotaplane; Invented by the Spanish engineer Juan de la Cierva to create an aircraft that could fly safely at slow speeds, the autogyro was first flown on Jan 9, 1923 in Madrid)
(d) “Boer goats, a robust variety brought to Australia from South Africa in the 1980s * * * [photo legend:] The Boer goat, with its distinctive brown head, is one of the most popular types of goat bred for its meat”
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boer_goat
(e) “Each has a name: Grace was a champion at a local show, and there are high hopes for Britannia and Japonica.”
Like Grace, Britannia and Japonica are names of two (female) Boer goats.
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