Are people overseas paying more or less for New Zealand lamb than we Kiwis are? It turns out, yes, we are paying more for our lamb here than the English, thousands of miles away.

New Zealand is eating far less sheep meat, consumption has plummeted from more than 19 kilograms per person in 2006 to just 900 grams in 2016, and many Stuff readers reckon it has something to do with price.

Having scoured the internet, we've found UK's supermarket chain Sainsbury's is selling New Zealand legs of lamb for £7.50 - or NZ$13.80 - per kilogram, cheaper than both Countdown and Mad Butcher's price of $16.99 per kg for legs of lamb.

CAMERON BURNELL/STUFF Exporting lamb across the world, it seems New Zealand's losing it's taste for it.

Another chain, Iceland, is selling New Zealand legs of lamb for the equivalent of NZ$15.83 per kilogram, while Waitrose supermarkets were selling whole Kiwi legs for NZ$15.93 per kg.

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Tesco supermarkets were slightly more expensive, at the equivalent of NZ$19 per kg, while Tom Hixson of Smithfield, a UK butchery, was selling a 2.7kg lamb leg for NZ$51.20 (£26.95).

AARON MCLEAN Lamb has long been the darling of New Zealand agriculture, but it seems we've fallen out of love it.

Some UK supermarkets banned the sale of New Zealand lamb last year, following intense lobbying from their local industry. The Express reported in 2017 that UK grown lamb had just become cheaper than NZ lamb, for the first time since 2011. The wholesale price of UK lamb dropped to £2.36 (NZ$6.39) per kilo, while NZ's lamb had risen to £3.82 (NZ$7.26).

In The United States, wholesale supermarket Sam's Club's whole boneless lamb legs were going for US$14 (NZ$19.30) per kilogram.

Frenched racks of lamb being sold at Dutch grocery chain Jumbo were being sold for close to the equivalent of NZ$42 per kilo, while in New Zealand's Countdown they were only $29.99 per kilo.