Goat is the most widely consumed red meat in the world. It is also the most Heart Friendly. Gram for gram goat meat has less cholesterol and saturated fat than chicken and yet all of the taste and flavour you expect from lamb and beef.
(This table contains both ozs and grams. It has been taken in its entirety from the source, United States Dept Agriculture Handbook 8, 1989, Home and Garden Bulletin no.72 Nutritive Value of Foods)
Goat meat is known by several different names around the world the most common being CHEVON, a cross between the French words chevre (goat) and mouton (mutton).
Goat is butchered in just the same way as lamb and takes the same names for the joints eg leg, shoulder, rack, loin etc.