Kangaroo Meat
February 20th 2007 00:52
This ABC article, Skippy Size Me, has some interesting things to say about Kangaroos and why we should be eating them. And you know what? I'm leaning towards agreeing with it... why are all our television plastered with advertisements for Lamb and Pork? All the time, eat more lamb it's good for the Australian economy, eat lamb on Australia Day - it's Australian, pork - the other white meat, pork is great for you, etc, etc. Why aren't we advertising kangaroo meat in the same way?
Point 1. It's a market that no one else in the world could beat us on.
From the article...
"It is very lean and high in polyunsaturated fat, and does not require a lot of preparation. In a country where cardiovascular disease is one of the leading causes of death, kangaroo meat should be considered as a serious supplement or even alternative to other red meats."
So... Point 2. Healthy.
Also, Point 3. The kangaroo populations are apparently out of control in some areas. Pre-European colonisation, the kangaroo population was kept down by Aboriginals and dingoes, but now they run amok and make a nuisance of themselves. Farmers are allowed to cull them, that's how much of a nuisance they've become. Why cull them when we could farm them instead?
And the article also goes on to say (amongst numerous other good points) that our environment is built for kangaroos. Australia has no native hoofed mammals - all the ungulates we've imported, be they sheep, cows, horses, whatever, they're damaging our country's soil. Native Australian plants can't handle getting mashed on by dirty sheep hooves. Farming kangaroos would have minimal impact on the environment, not like the devastating sheep stations that dot the outback, so it makes sense!
I'm going to make an effort to eat more kangaroo meat. I've eaten it once or twice in the past... it was a while ago so I can't remember if I liked it, hahaha, but I'm sure it won't be too bad.
Australia would do good to boot out all the non-native animals and concentrate on utilising home-grown meats... emu could supplant poultry, crocodile would do good at this too (and I've had crocodile a couple of times - it rules, such a great meat). Many other Australian animals could be farmed too. What about Koalas? If we got our farmers interested in them then we could really help bump their population up - we could save our endangered animals by eating them. I reckon Koalas would taste great - they'd have their own eucalyptusy taste that no other meat could match and they wouldn't be muscly or anything cause they're so fucking lazy. And I'm sure we could use their fur, the Japanese would probably love to buy Koala-skin coats.
What do you reckon?
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Comment by MelissaA
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i would love to see more places sell it as quite often I find i have to change shops as places will stop selling it for whatever reason, so sometimes it's very elusive.
Even our local Coles supermarket used to sell it years ago, stopped fopr a couple of years and has recently started up again. I love my Kanga Bangas!
Comment by Damo
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People may enjoy eating Skippy but they may draw the line at eating Blinky Bill.
After it is skinned it would look like a dead baby. EEEK!
Comment by KylieW
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Comment by Ahmed
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My opinion is that we should eat more rabbit meat too, seriously, lets just eat our way through the pests that we have to deal with, from kangaroo's to cane toads... well maybe not so much cane toads but you get the idea
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how would you guys feel about platypus then?
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Comment by MelissaA
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I haven't found rabbit done anywhere yet that's not too 'heavy' for me.
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i'm keen for emu.