1.   In short, you can use goat in just about any recipe that calls for red meat.

2.   Meteorologists are more accurate and foresters are getting creative, even using goats to tame their woodlands.

3.   Still, the goats are used to this kind of attention.

4.   The goat is used to provoke controversy.

5.   The goats are being used by orchards to prune low branches and shoots, called suckers, that would otherwise have to be trimmed from trees by hand.

6.   The Food and Drug Administration proposed a ban on using goat and sheep offal in animal feed nearly two years ago, but nothing came of it.

7.   Theoretically, says Luykx, the technology that creates clones of sheep and goats could be used on human eggs.

8.   But Nexia President Jeffrey Turner says he can increase production to commercial scale using goats that would produce the silk protein in their milk.