It may come as a surprise to many Australians but the most consumed red meat in the world isn't beef, lamb, or pork - it's goat meat, and Australia is the world's largest exporter. Last year we sent just over twelve thousand tonnes of goat meat, live animals and carcasses, worth almost twenty-five million dollars to Asia, Africa, the Middle East, the United States and the Caribbean. Nearly all of this was from feral goats which are being mustered as part of strategies to better manage this much-maligned ruminant. Just a few years' estimates put Australia's feral goat population at four million, and growing.
Cattle
Both the largest sheep station and the largest cattle station in the world are in Australia - and both in South Australia. The cattle station is over 30,000 square kilometres (approximately 12,000 square miles) - nearly a quarter the size of the whole of England.
As there are fourteen people inhabiting this area, the population density ratio of the station of one person per 2,223 square kilometres is comparable, strangely enough, with that of England, whose ratio is much the same. However, the latter's just happens to be inverse, with one square kilometre housing 2,223 persons.
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