Posted on 08/11/2008 10:07:24 PM PDT by dennisw
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Farming kangaroos instead of sheep and cattle in Australia could cut by almost a quarter the greenhouse gases produced by grazing livestock, which account for 11 percent of the nation's annual emissions, said a new study.
Removing seven million cattle and 36 million sheep by 2020 and replacing them with 175 million kangaroos, to produce the same amount of meat, could lower national greenhouse gases by 3 percent a year, said the University of New South Wales study.
Methane from the foregut of cattle and sheep constitutes 11 percent of Australia's total greenhouse emissions, but kangaroos produce negligible amounts of methane, said the study.
The study said methane was a principal concern in climate change because more than 500 million metric tons of the gas entered the atmosphere annually, which exceeds the amount that can be naturally removed.
Methane's warming potential over a 100-year time frame is 21 times higher than that of carbon dioxide, but its chemical lifetime in the atmosphere is only 8 to 12 years compared with carbon dioxide's 100 years.
"Therefore, reducing methane production is an attractive short-term target for mitigating global warming," said the study published in the latest edition of the international journal "Conservation Letters".
However, the study said changing farming practices in Australia, which is one of the world's top wool and beef producers but sells by comparison only small amounts of kangaroo meat for human consumption, would not be easy.
"The change will require large cultural and social adjustments and reinvestment. One of the impediments to change is protective legislation and the status of kangaroos as a national icon," it said. Continued
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That's it. It's beerthirty.
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I had roo once....roos good eatin
First they ween you off of beef and then off of meat altogether. As Paul McCartney said it when Linda converted him, “you just keep making the meat portions smaller”.
So much for freedom.
LOL!
Roos have different bacteria and microbes in their rumens than sheep and cattle.
Much of the methane put out by cows (and sheep) comes from the breakdown of fiber in the rumen. Roos seem to have different rumen bacteria that doesn’t give off methane as they break down fiber.
Roo meat is good (I’ve eaten it and liked it — kinda lean, not terribly tough, finer grained than beef), but I don’t think that this idea is going to fly with the general public.
I think they’re jumping to conclusions here.
Anyone run this past the animal libbers??? They’ll go ballistic! LOL!
I’ve heard from people who have lived down under that roo meat is wormy, which if true I guess would be because they live in the wild.
On another thought, how high would the fencing have to be?
There’s bats in the belfry.
‘Roos are much too cute to eat!! Leave ‘em alone..... what will they want to kill Kangaroo Jack???
LOL WUT? How much wool can one get from a kangaroo? Oh, I forgot, the people pushing this are a bunch of f$%king retards with zero connection to reality, and such considerations evade them. Carry on, then!
I have a beef with the Aussie’s and all the other “Sheeple” around the World and in the U.S. whom think that Globull Warming even exists.
Prove it.
geesh! I love FR,you can’t find this stuff on your own(at least as quickly) I don’t think this plan will fly,myself,,mainly because its totally knuckleheaded!
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