Environment

Fight Global Warming: Eat a Kangaroo

by Jordan Yerman | October 1, 2008 at 05:44 am

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The article below describes kangaroos as an environmentally-sound alternative to cattle ranching: food with a lower green price-tag. One key element to the argument is animal flatulence and the greenhouse-gas contribution of livestock... if tooting means that I won't get eaten, then pass the beans.

The belching and farting of millions of farm animals is a major contributor to Australia's greenhouse gas emissions, Professor Ross Garnaut noted in a major report to the government on global warming.

Kangaroos, on the other hand, emit negligible amounts of methane gas.

If farmers were included in a system requiring industry to buy permits for the gas they produce, the cost of meat would rise and could lead to a change in eating habits, Garnaut said in the 600 page report released Wednesday.

Kangaroo is already eaten in Oz, of course, but it's not really mainstream in the same way as lamb or beef; to most of us, they're exotic and cute, but to many Aussies they're just giant rats. While one of Australia's national symbols (along with the wattle and the Southern Cross), kangaroos are just not considered dinner.

Also, kangaroos would be more difficult to wrangle and farm: they're fast, they're strong, they can jump really far, and-- if push comes to shove-- they have a mean right hook.

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Vinny

at 07:01 on October 1st, 2008

Good idea eating kangaroos but be careful some resist attempts to get them in the pot!

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at 07:12 on October 1st, 2008

jordan, I like this story. It's good stuff.

This does not make any sense at all, It is our ever increasing meat and Fish Consumption that is the main problem even for waist management and Sheep would be just as environmental friendly as Kangaroos and easier to handle as well. Yet, if change then the right change please and not Kangaroos but insects like Locus and Maggots or Grass hoppers and ants, that would be really environmental friendly and give us the dame Protein value as meat.