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A cook controls a machine to grill lamb meats at a Mongolian style restaurant Nine-Nine Yurts in Beijing February 10, 2015. China is the world's largest producer of lamb and mutton, with a flock estimated at nearly 140 million in 2011, but output has been declining as farmable land shrinks due to urbanisation. Lamb has traditionally been consumed mainly in China's northeast, but a growing urban middle class in expanding cities wants more protein and has broader tastes. The Chinese Lunar New Year on February 19 will welcome the Year of the Sheep (also known as the Year of the Goat or Ram). (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)
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