Australia is for Sheep Lovers

Despite the popular convention that the country with the largest number of sheep is New Zealand, in fact, Australia has about 50 Million more sheep than NZ. This means that there's about 5 sheep for each Australian man, woman and child (the ratio is greater in NZ, but they have a far smaller human population). I was thrilled at the overwhelming availability of lamb on menus no matter where we happened to go. Of course it was still pretty expensive, but EVERYTHING was expensive. My mother and I could hardly have a meat-based meal without spending more than $100 AUS. And, of course, we ate extremely well.

But that many sheep clearly have some sort of power. That's a lot of methane. That's a lot of beady eyes, glaring you down (hypothetically) as you ponder a menu. That's a lot of wool. That's a lot of Baaahing.