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Kōrero: Sheep farming

Lamburger

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When sheep farming declined after the restructuring of the economy in the mid-1980s, trade minister Mike Moore 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.

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Hugh Stringleman rāua ko Robert Peden, Sheep farming – Changes from the 20th century, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/video/16665/lamburger (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Hugh Stringleman rāua ko Robert Peden, i tāngia i te 1 March 2009, updated 1 March 2015.