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Story: Sheep farming

Lamburger

When sheep farming declined after the restructuring of the economy in the mid-1980s, Mike Moore, minister for trade, came up with the idea of lamburgers as a way of marketing New Zealand's sheep meat. He claimed that if every American ate one lamburger a year, there would not be enough sheep to meet the demand. The problem was getting Americans to eat any lamburgers at all.

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Hugh Stringleman and Robert Peden. 'Sheep farming', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, updated 27-Sep-11
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