Posted on 08/09/2008 6:03:58 AM PDT by Renfield
Australian scientists have come up with a unique way to combat climate change: eat kangaroos and save the world.
A study claims that farming and consuming more kangaroos instead of cattle and sheep will reduce carbon gas emissions.
According to the scientific journal Conservation Letters, the Australian icon produces far less methane than sheep and cattle. Methane is one of the worst causes of greenhouse gas and in Australia alone sheep and cattle produce 11 per cent of the nation’s total emissions.
Kangaroos, on the other hand, produce relatively small amounts of the gas because they are not ruminants; as with wallabies, the microorganisms in their stomachs differ from those found in sheep and cattle....
(Excerpt) Read more at timesonline.co.uk ...
I won’t eat kangaroos or rabbits because I think they are too sweet and bouncy.
“australians say eating kangaroo will save the world.”
and what about the methane emissions by the humans who eat them?
(a liberal subterfuge to raise taxes and gain absolute power.)
Australians don’t eat kangaroos. There was a proposal to cull them near a military facility which had to be cancelled because of public protests.
I would rather slaughter the idiots who come up with these ideas.
Yup, was looking for some kangaroo for my next BBQ thread.http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2058138/posts
Save Skippy!
>>>eating kangaroos will save the world
If nothing else kangaroos might serve as a new entree for MRE’s. After all it already has its own pouch.
“According to the scientific journal Conservation Letters, the Australian icon produces far less methane than sheep and cattle. Methane is one of the worst causes of greenhouse gas and in Australia alone sheep and cattle produce 11 per cent of the nation’s total emissions. “
Help me here. If I read this correctly it says that cattle and sheep produce moe methane than Kangaroos. So why eat them? I would eat the sheep and cattle first. People Eating Tasty Animals would approve I am sure.
Yeah, but do they taste like chicken?
It figures right, let’s eat all the Kangaroos because cows and sheep make more methane.
Global warming science at it’s best....
The cattle are farting! We’re all doomed!
All together now
Tie me kangaroo down, sport
Tie me kangaroo down
Tie me kangaroo down, sport
Tie me kangaroo down
I’ve eaten turtle, elk, bison, cow, fish... kangaroo... not yet, but looking forward to it when available.
Trouble with kangaroo is the drumsticks are too big.
It would be called:
K.K.K.
Kentucky Kangaroo Kaseroles.
BTW when Australia was first colonized, (as a penal colony for British Krooks) there was not sufficient food supplies so rabbits were introduced into the ecology. There were no natural predators and the rabbits bred so much that the country was overrun by Bugs and his Buddies. we might include rabbits in our K.K.K.!
No. Kangaroo tastes like a big mouse.
The Aussies don’t have to “produce” kangaroos. They are abundant in the wild and are, in fact, a pest. Fences can’t keep them out (they just jump over them), so they eat the fooder in the pastures that was meant for cattle and sheep. You need only go out for a morning stroll in southeast Victoria and they’re hopping all over the place. They don’t have any compunctions about eating it - it’s on menus at the best restaurants.
Of course, I’m a vegetarian (just feel better not eating flesh but have no objection to others eating meat, and in fact, cook it for my family).
Kangaroo- The OTHER white meat.
Yes, they do eat them. I visit family there regularly and when we go out to eat, it’s always on the menu.
Greenies don’t like it. Assume you could be one?
As I said, I’m a veg-head so I have no axe to grind.
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