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Also known as chevon, mutton, cabrito, capretto, kid, Capra aegagrus hircus

meat from the domestic goat used as food

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Commons category
Goat meat
MCN code
0204.50.00
natural product of taxon
goat
water footprint
8763
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Encyclopedic overview

Butchered goat carcass, Nigeria

Goat meat is the meat of the domestic goat (Capra hircus). The term 'goat meat' denotes meat of older animals, while meat from young goats is called 'kid meat'. In South Asian cuisine, goat meat is called mutton, along with sheep meat.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “goat meat” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.