Lamb meat testing in urban restaurants proves half of the time Lamb meat served is rat and not lamb

Chuck Woodruff
   A sampling of test studies on eat found that a full thirty percent of the time the food in mobile trucks and restaurants. Chef Alexander Papetsas of Kellari Taverna in New York City warned that some customers who order the pricier lamb may be getting meat of a lesser value.Everyone knows what a lamb chop looks like," he told Inside Edition. "Serving gyros or lamb and rice — or those dishes where it's a more shredded lamb — it's very easy to make a blend using such things as goat."
Food expert Larry Olmsted said that if you order lamb but see meat on your dish that doesn’t look recognizable, it might not be what you expected.Everyone knows what a lamb chop looks like," he told Inside Edition. "Serving gyros or lamb and rice — or those dishes where it's a more shredded lamb — it's very easy to make a blend using such things as goat."
Inside Edition ran a story where many of these Medittearrean Arab places along with the Chinese Kitchens around the country are serving bogus goat meat instead of the lamb and beef which tends to be ore expensive. These food trucks and restaurants do this in order to meet greater profit margins mixing in salami and goat meat instead of the pricer meats to purchase from the food vendors.
“The less recognizable it is to your eye, the more likely you are to be cheated,” he told Inside Edition.
The Inside Edition I-Squad tested lamb dishes from 39 restaurants in Los Angeles and New York City. The food establishments included everything from tourist hot spots to food trucks. Why anyone ordering lamb these days in these squeezed profit-margin businesses and expect lamb is startling and most of the meat in these cheap taquerias and Chinese food shacks are likely void of the truth in the meat they serve. Unless the police actually do anything about deceiving of meat you might as well eat grass than trust the meat in many of these small business or dishonest higher end restaurants who will always seek a way to make more of less.
The samples were sent to IEH Laboratories for DNA testing, and the results were startling.
Twenty-three percent of the so-called lamb samples were not lamb at all. Instead, they were goat, chicken, or beef, which are all cheaper than lamb.
“It’s much more than I expected to get 23 percent of the time... you order lamb and get goat for example.  It’s not acceptable,” said Dr. Mansour Samadpour of IEH laboratories.
At one popular food truck in Manhattan, the lamb dish looked like the real deal, but tests showed it was actually a combination of chicken and beef. food trucks are especially best to avoid as they can easily mix in fresh road kill in their recipes and sampling stews and other dishes without being suspected.