Nick Maclaren wrote:
In article ,
hugh wrote:

And when did you last see a piece of mutton for sale, or offered
on a menu?

We had some 12 days ago. It has been relegalised.

Why was it illegalised?

BSE. Our Lords and Masters wanted to ensure that animals were
killed
before they showed signs of BSE, to make it easier to claim that
the
country was BSE free.

And the public fell for it, as usual. Somebody wrote in the Grauniad
last week "Do they think we're stupid?"; I couldn't be bothered to
reply, "Yes, of course they do: you swallowed all the other cons,
after all." (Sorry: feeling hacked off, as my mother's in a
Maggie-Tony hospital.)

Mike.