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Kangaroo cull on Defence land to go ahead

theaustralian.news.com.au — DEFENCE contractors are preparing to cull hundreds of kangaroos at a Canberra site in another about-face, after the federal government refused to foot the bill to move them. After moving in March to kill the kangaroos at the former naval station for environmental reasons, Defence stopped the cull to further study moving the animals interstate

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  • LewP, on 05/17/2008, -23/+9I hate to hear of this news......
    I think I can speak for most Americans when I say when we think of Australia, we think of the great Barrier Reef and kangaroos! Save the ROOS!!!!
    Added to the DDD! Crikey!!!!!!
    • AussieCynic, on 05/17/2008, -2/+3thanks LewP
      If I get enough comments and diggs I might submit it as a petition....
      so spread the word..
      thanks mate
    • TheRealToma, on 05/17/2008, -0/+6Well, Id hate to ruin it for you, but if you like the Great Barrier Reef, you might want to go check it out real soon. Its suffering from fertiliser run off and global warming. The roos tho, will be around alot longer than that.
      • goldfishey, on 05/17/2008, -0/+3not to mention that bloody starfish that infested it. It has done quite a lot of damage.
    • aussiejan, on 05/17/2008, -0/+23I know it sounds awful that they have these kangaroo culls but they are necessary. Kangaroos in Australia are like deer in Canada. If the numbers are not cut down, they eat everything in sight and other species suffer. It is especially difficult now when Australia has been in serious drought for many years and the roos are having trouble finding food. As it is we get tons of them in our backyard every evening to chew down what little grass we have left.
      • kjd84, on 05/17/2008, -0/+4Thankyou Aussiejan for speaking with intelligence and being real!!!
      • Myztry, on 05/17/2008, -0/+1I have a horse agisted on land next to a state forest. It was common to see the Kangaroo's grazing near the horse, but with the drought we have to supplement the horses feed. The kangaroos are moving in further across fences that my horse can't cross.
    • chromerium, on 05/17/2008, -0/+10"Somebody think of the poor roos!"

      They need to be culled. I grew up in the bush and they are nowhere near being endangered; if there were slightly tastier then maybe there'd be a problem but they are a real acquired taste.

      They're basically giant bouncing rats that if we let them breed out of control would pose a massive problem for farmers and also for motorists.

      Quoth wikipedia: Kangaroos account for over 60% of animal collisions in Australia; the next most common victim being dogs at 12%.

      The problem is when a roo hits say, a car, generally the driver ends up with 100kg of roo in the face.

      You should also be outraged over our systematic genocide against fluffy bunny rabbits ...
      • xDreaminGx, on 05/17/2008, -0/+3My grandad hit a roo at 80kph and wrote his car off, he also suffered major lacerations to the face and had to have reconstructive surgery on his face.

        I was in the back seat at the time it happened, the roo was hopping up the side of the road and when it saw our car it got scared and went in front of us like a cat.
        • goldfishey, on 05/17/2008, -0/+2God yes. I remember one night, I saw the roo's ahead and slowed down. They saw me and bounced out of the road - then inexplicably as I touched the accelerator again, one bounces straight back into the headlights! It's tail bent my license plate, my car spun on the dirt and I hit a tree backwards! The roo bounced away with the mob.

          inexplicable creatures!
        • Murdats, on 05/17/2008, -0/+2I have seen many times roo's take what looks like a suicidal turn in front of a car
          they seem to act as though they have a deathwish, and want to take someone with them
        • Myztry, on 05/17/2008, -0/+1I was driving when I noticed a mob of Kangaroos moving parallel to my car. I slowed in case they crossed in front, except one managed to slam into the side of my car.
          The Kangaroo didn't even falter, but it left a mighty dint (and a tuft of fur) in the passenger door. Scared the crap out of my passenger :)
    • Wack3d, on 05/17/2008, -0/+13When the entire world thinks of you Americans we think of people stupidly butting in to the affairs of others with your perpetual ignorance.
    • ghm101, on 05/17/2008, -0/+4Oh, if the kangaroos overpopulate and are not culled?....
      they starve to death, there are millions of them in a good year, better the bullet
    • whatsmygame, on 05/17/2008, -0/+1My parents have a farm just down the road from the new Defence HQ and their farm is often overrun with loads of these roo's. They are in plague proportions as a lot of them are coming closer into the suburban area's in search of water due to the drought over that past 5 or so years.

      While killing them is sad it's also not going to make much of a dent in their overall numbers.
    • SharkyTech, on 05/18/2008, -0/+2"Save the ROOS!!!!"
      ...for dinner.
  • cashman57, on 05/17/2008, -10/+3In reading the article I could not discern why the move was necessary.
    I didn't see what threat the roos posed if left alone.
    • AussieCynic, on 05/17/2008, -0/+3They have been saying they will destroy the grass land... and perhaps a grasshopper ..
      the thing is they wont remove part of the fence for short time either...
      • joshak, on 05/17/2008, -0/+2How would this help?
        Sure the Kangaroo's would disperse a little, but they would also continue to grow in numbers, you would just be increasing the affected area.
  • louiebaur, on 05/17/2008, -10/+3That is terrible kill em instead of moving them I can't believe it
    • Mootabolife, on 05/17/2008, -1/+3We barely care about human life sometimes.. ***** like this doesn't surprise me anymore.
    • Wack3d, on 05/17/2008, -0/+2Would you prefer to move the rats in your house from the kitchen to the lounge room? Or do you kill em?
      Kangaroos are in almost plague proportions, they need to be humanely killed or they will die horribly of starvation.
      Seriously tho lethal injection?? Whatever happened to a simple hot lead injection to the brain?
  • jjustice, on 05/17/2008, -4/+7I want one! I'll pay for shipping ;-)
  • Qong, on 05/17/2008, -5/+5I don't think that it's right to kill off so many of them instead of simply moving them elsewhere. But if it really is too expensive for the Australian tax payers to move them, then I guess killing some of them would be necessary if they are going to hurt the environment and wipe out other species in the area, if that's the case I suppose that killing some of them is the lesser of the two evils.

    How did so many kangaroo's get in the area in the first place though? Did they move into the area on their own, were they brought there? It seems to me that this problem should have been identified and dealt with before 500 kangaroo's were allowed to populate the area.

    It certainly would be easier to move a small amount of kangaroo's rather than 500 of them. It seems like a failure on the part of the government and whatever other groups keep track of the local environment. They could have moved them to a better area before their population reached such heights.
    • Zeekstah, on 05/17/2008, -0/+19As an Australian, let me way in my opinion.

      Kangaroo's breed extremelly quickly, and the government finds it hard to do regular culls because of the mass opposition it gets every time they have to be carried out.

      At the end of the day, if a percentage of these kangaroo's arent removed (preferrably destroyed because kangaroos are currently in pest proportions, like a rat) They'd just destroy the environment, and starve themselves out, which will destroy the defence land in the process.
      • mem2, on 05/17/2008, -0/+11Agreed, Ive run over enough roo's in my ute to know there is plenty more where they came from. Its like complaining someone is going to kill a big chunk of pigeons, who would really care apart from the bleeding hearts.
      • superkendall, on 05/17/2008, -3/+12Shut up, actual Australian. How dare you bring reality into a proper Digg Roo-Love-Fest!

      • Qong, on 05/17/2008, -1/+1That's good to know.

        I couldn't wrap my head around why they would wait for the population to seemingly explode to environment destroying, no way to transport, best choice to kill levels before trying to do something about the problem.
        • fumpt, on 05/17/2008, -2/+1Are you kidding? Take a look at the size of the continent and you might get some perspective on why this isn't feasible.
        • Qong, on 05/17/2008, -0/+1What does the size of the continent matter? People are aware of environmental problems, both major and minor, across the entire planet, let alone one continent.

          The fact is that if they knew that kangaroo's entering this area would cause harm to the environment, they should have taken action long before they became a problem, long before it got to the point of having to kill 400 of them.
        • laconix, on 05/21/2008, -0/+1That's what they thought about wallaby's, until they killed too many and became endangered.
    • rnwen2750, on 05/17/2008, -0/+1We should take a page out of the feral cat colony's book though. If you just remove animals from the habitat, more will come (or be born) in their place. Capturing-neutering-and-releasing programs are known to be much more effective as a long-term strategy for population control.
  • jmpeagle, on 05/17/2008, -0/+24they're considered pests in Australia, the place occassionally gets overrun by them and so a mass culling is often necessary
    • EmileVictor, on 05/17/2008, -1/+1Well, not really pests per se... Loveable pests in the most extreme.

      There's no aguing that there's a *****-ton of them though.
    • blackfett, on 05/17/2008, -1/+3theyre also considered good eating aswell.
  • Flashman, on 05/17/2008, -2/+28I'm an Australian taxpayer. Spending $3.5m on moving 400 kangaroos - out of 60 million - is ludicrous. I think the current plan of tranquilizers and lethal injection is the wrong approach, but I understand it's probably the only way to prevent protests. Really, there's no harm in putting a bullet through a kangaroo's head and turning the rest into steak and clothing. It's not cruel. In the rare instances of missed shots - and hunters lose money if they don't make clean kills - the job is finished in under a minute.

    And could Paul McCartney please butt the ***** out?
    • treelovinhippie, on 05/17/2008, -1/+19Here here!

      If anyone on Digg actually knew how fast Kangaroos breed and how much of a menace they become when the population gets out of control, they would agree culling is fine. Kangaroo meat is actually tastier than any beef or pork products (you just need to cook it properly).
      • joshak, on 05/17/2008, -1/+4Very true. This is because we cleared so much land for pastures/grazing and culled alot of their natural predators, such as the dingo.
        • FrozenGonad, on 05/17/2008, -0/+11We also culled another of their natural predators. The Aborigine
        • soupdawg30, on 05/17/2008, -2/+7Dingo ate my baby.
        • ngresonance, on 05/17/2008, -0/+2I don't know if the dingo was one of their "natural" predators in the strict sense, since they were only introduced by Austronesians around 5000 years ago, but they could have taken the place of some of the megafauna which were wiped out when the Aborigines came to Australia.
        • skywake, on 05/17/2008, -1/+1Also, the Tasmanian tiger.... wasn't just in Tasmania and was around from before 1000BC till 1936. It could easily be argued that the introduction of the Dingo was the reason it wasn't on mainland Australia when Europeans settled.
  • dinostabOMG, on 05/17/2008, -2/+14Aren't they edible? Why are they lethally injecting them? That would probably make them less edible, I imagine. Why not just increase the number of hunting licenses or something? Pay hunters for each kangaroo, or encourage them to sell to meat packing plants?
    • mem2, on 05/17/2008, -5/+2yer, you can live on it but it tastes like *****.
      • soupdawg30, on 05/17/2008, -0/+3give it to the poor. solve two problems at once.
      • Mootabolife, on 05/17/2008, -2/+2Dugg for the croc dundee.
        • mem2, on 05/17/2008, -5/+1glad someone got the ref ;) and yes it is true, roo meat really does taste like *****, hell its 2nd rate dog food here. I does taste better than emu however.
      • kjd84, on 05/17/2008, -0/+4Roo doesn't taste like ***** if you aren't a retard in the kitchen.
        • mem2, on 05/17/2008, -2/+1its *****, wake up and smell the beef.
        • Murdats, on 05/17/2008, -2/+1what you mean if i cover it in sauce and marinade to mask the taste?
        • kjd84, on 05/17/2008, -0/+2No not at all just cook it properly. I rarely put marinade on my roo. You just have to cook it right. If you do that it is tender and really really nice.
        • lukak, on 05/18/2008, -0/+1roo's got to be the best meat going round. High in protein, 98% fat free, cheap and tasty as hell.
          Just marinate it (little lemon and vinegar) and shove it in the oven.
    • Wack3d, on 05/17/2008, -2/+4It tastes fantastic by far the best meat available. Heck my mates and I have even dragged a fresh roadkill back to the fire and cooked it up whole. Yum Yum.
    • Gryffydd, on 05/17/2008, -0/+2All I know is that Kangaroo Leather is supposed to be awesome...
    • chaddles, on 05/26/2008, -0/+1Roo meat is a lean, healthy red meat, rich in iron and other nutrients. Roos don't fart methane like cows do, so it's far better for the environment than eating beef. I regularly eat kangaroo - steaks and roasts are my favourites.

      Sadly, not all roos make the best meat. Ideally, you want a male roo about 2 years old, otherwise the meat can be stringy or tough.

      Roos subject to culls are generally not suitable for human consumption
      • kjd84, on 06/01/2008, -0/+1I disagree You really think that the roo you get is the finest 2yo roo meat? Roo shooters are paid by the kg and as such they shoot the bigger ones as it is far cheaper. Thats all the roo shooters do is cull, meat is a by product of that.
  • Stonekeeper, on 05/17/2008, -1/+11When i stayed in Australia a while back, some people i knew went out shooting Kangeroos. Initially I was totally shocked, but then came to realise that it's a cultural thing. If you replaced the word "Kangaroos" with "Rats" in that last sentance, most would have no beef about it. Unfortunately, Kangeroos are often on a par with rats with regards to being a pest. Roos *are* cute, and that's the problem. If they were pig-ugly, nobody would say anything...
    • goldfishey, on 05/17/2008, -0/+3yeah, the grey's are cute little skippy's. The reds are just ******* scary though!
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  • vonskippy, on 05/17/2008, -0/+11Meh, who cares. They're like big rats (except with smaller brains) just shoot'm and be done with it. What a waste of time and money to drug them then kill them. The whole world is turning into one big pussy (and I don't mean that in a good way).
  • Mootabolife, on 05/17/2008, -0/+18We need a large order of boxing gloves shipped over immediately.
  • TheGreatBelow, on 05/17/2008, -12/+3***** THING SUCKS!
  • JKAL, on 05/17/2008, -13/+1So where are all the Aussie whale (animal) lovers now! it's easy to criticize another country but not your own.
    • splash, on 05/17/2008, -0/+7Kangaroos are not an endangered species, whereas whales are. There are also a number of Australians who do not want the cull to go ahead. I think it has been delayed 3 times already.
    • Greanbeens, on 05/17/2008, -0/+5Yeah, and Japan etc doesn't lethally inject whales, they torture them for an hour or two and cut them up alive.
    • angryredplanet, on 05/17/2008, -0/+2The Japanese don't slaughter whales in their own back yards. Instead, they travel 1/2 way across the world into the southern ocean (Australia's back yard) and do it in a sanctuary where whales are 'protected'. Kind of like stealing candy from a baby. For a culture that prides itself on honour, that's really dishonourable.
  • farsonic, on 05/17/2008, -0/+12The difference is that there isn't many whales, and there is one ****load of Kangaroos.....they tend to breed like rabbits.
  • FrozenGonad, on 05/17/2008, -2/+4They taste good. But only if you kill em with a boomerang
  • Erectile, on 05/17/2008, -1/+10The only people who will have a problem with this are people who don't live in Australia and don't know how fast these ***** breed.
    • soupdawg30, on 05/17/2008, -0/+10In Texas we like killing everything. I say good huntin to ya!
      • Erectile, on 05/17/2008, -0/+2Yee haw!
      • soupdawg30, on 05/17/2008, -0/+3We don't really say that but ok.
      • mem2, on 05/17/2008, -0/+7So your saying all we need todo is setup a Roo shooting holiday extravaganza for Texans and you will solve the problem for us ?
    • rnwen2750, on 05/17/2008, -0/+1Or people who know a thing or two about planned culls and know that this is just an expensive waste of money and that there are much more efficient ways to achieve the desired effect, particularly CNR programs.
  • Khaine, on 05/17/2008, -0/+2Kangaroos are very territorial and generally don't survive relocation. At present, there are two many kangaroos on that land and the ACT Government is refusing to allow the kangaroos to be relocated. If the numbers are not reduced, they will starve to death. So what is the best course of action?
    • FrozenGonad, on 05/17/2008, -2/+3Club the buggers like baby seals!!!
  • Crioca, on 05/17/2008, -1/+9You have to understand how the reproductive process of kangaroos work before you go off on a tangent about how cruel/unnecessary this culling is. Let me put it this way: A female kangaroo is pregnant 99% of the time, the only time they're *not* pregnant is the day they give birth, other than that they can pause the pregnancy. This means that when there is available food and water the kangaroo population *explodes*. Most of Australia is coming out of an incredibly severe drought and the rapidly expanding kangaroo population threatens livelihoods in a place where a lot of people simply aren't getting by.
  • Pantsuninja, on 05/17/2008, -2/+5Australia has about 10billion too many roos. They are looked at as a vermin there. If you walk around in Canberra at evening/night you will see them everywhere
  • Wack3d, on 05/17/2008, -1/+5Man I miss shooting them, rabbits roos foxes and feral cats. Ahh good times gonna have to go back to Alice and go shooting pests again sometime.
  • AussieVesti, on 05/17/2008, -1/+4Yeah, I've heard that farmers have been allowing casual hunters to shoot them off in their property. Wouldn't mind having a go. Haven't kangaroo meat in a long time.
  • stage88, on 05/17/2008, -2/+2I live just down the road... They are a real threat to motorists as they love jumping in front of cars. In summer, nearby roads are full of road kill, so riding a bike is not an option. Sometime it is so bad that there are a few dead roos every 1k...

    I am against killing the animals, however they are a bit of a hazard lately..
  • ysss, on 05/17/2008, -0/+3They're basically supersized bunnies with tummy pouches.
  • Greanbeens, on 05/17/2008, -3/+1I dont see how the kangaroos would starve to death, they can abort their fetuses when resources are low, if you just let nature take it's course, we wont have to do anything. They will die on their own.
    • Wack3d, on 05/17/2008, -0/+1Yes they will .......of starvation, FFS!
  • GalacticXenu, on 05/17/2008, -1/+3How you gets to kill a roo?

    *squeezes its testicles*

    It's all you have to do.
  • cheekybastard, on 05/17/2008, -0/+2Lets not jump to any conclusions yet.
  • jmatson, on 05/17/2008, -4/+0The defence site in question is a fenced off field in the middle of the Belconnen residential area, so you can't really pay hunters to go in there and shoot them without putting the local residents at risk.

    Anyway, I'm sure there would be plenty of volunteers who would be happy to help relocate the kangaroos, if only the ACT government wasn't so keen on culling them.
    • BECoole, on 05/17/2008, -0/+1Sure you can. Archery is effective for areas like that.
  • Rooster99, on 05/17/2008, -0/+11As someone who spend most of his life in Canberra, let me say that this is a great idea. Not the nicest thought in the world, but when you can honestly say to people that you will see at least 2-3 freshly killed roo's on the way to work, then thats a problem. I have hit 2 of them and seen many people hit them too.

    When they are overpopulated they run out of food in the bush, and come into the suburbs looking for scraps. And roo's are real bastards on the road. Just when you think it knows you are driving towards it and it jumps out of the way to let you pass, it will dive right back out infront of the car. They are completely suicidal. And solid, so when you hit it it ***** the car!

  • kjd84, on 05/17/2008, -1/+4Whats shocking to me is that they spent money researching a way to relocate them to appease a minority and just move the problem elsewhere!!! Should have just culled them in the first place and not listened to a few squeeky wheels.
  • username484767, on 05/17/2008, -7/+1what monsters would kill hundreds of animals? Ooooh, right, milatary types, kinda like the nazi's... sigh
    • alphgeek, on 05/17/2008, -1/+2Of course you don't eat meat, do you? Or didn't you realise that meat comes from those cute little animals?

      PS Godwin's law, you lose.
  • goldfishey, on 05/17/2008, -1/+2In all honesty a cull, really is the most humane option for them. To relocate them you would have to find a large suitable tract of grasslands that don't already have a roo population, It would be expensive and prohibitively difficult. - And given more space per roo -the populations in both area's would explode.
    The only natural predator kangaroo's have in many area's is the four wheel drive! They can be such pests!
    My only issue with the cull is the waste. I doubt they will use any part of the roo, after their killed. especially via lethal injection. At least shooting them makes the meat useful.
  • steveoco, on 05/17/2008, -0/+2If that many could be killed for meat and processed it would be a great alternative, but i do not think the man power exists to kill and process that many. Shame that they will be wasted but it is a necessary process...
    • scizor600, on 05/17/2008, -0/+5roo meat isn't half bad either
      • steveoco, on 05/17/2008, -0/+2I use to eat it quite a lot, tons of protein and iron with hardly any fat... it is like a super food.
  • ButlerMonkey, on 05/17/2008, -1/+2Don't worry, any males killed will have their scrotum's harvested and sold in souvenir shops.
  • DougO, on 05/17/2008, -1/+2Back in my basic training days, we had to do a field exercise at Puckapunyal in country Victoria. After a day tabbing through the fields there, our boots were that heavy and caked with kangaroo ***** that we had to stop every few hours and scrape them off. It must be hard for people overseas to understand how prolific they can be and the damage they can cause to crops. That said though, I don't think we should be culling them, eating them, keeping our change in their scrotums or making bottle openers with their paws!
  • Myztry, on 05/17/2008, -0/+2They sell Kangaroo meat in Coles Supermarkets (largest Australian chain?) in Victoria. Why relocate the Kangaroo when they can just be 'farmed' off the land. Give an enterprising sole a permit. Problem solved...
    If cows need to be removed an area for any reason, they don't relocate them. They just send them to the knackery... It's foolish to preserve one herd posing a problem, while at the same time other herds causing no problem are being processed through abatoirs.


    • warragul, on 05/17/2008, -0/+0If you want to use roo meat for human consumption you need to know its history. Most roos in the wild, like any wild animal, are subject to disease and parasites. Intestinal worms are very common and ticks etc are just part of life.
      The roo meat you see in the supermarket doesn't come from wild roos. It comes from farmed, managed roos. Roos bred for the table, so to speak.
      The animals in Canberra are not unique in their plight. During the drought kangaroos were a common sight in the northern outskirts of Melbourne in mobs of 30 or more.
      • Myztry, on 05/17/2008, -0/+1I've had wild Kangaroo once. Though I didn't know it at the time. It's probably best to ask what the meat if before the meal when eating with (half-caste) aboriginals...
        Possibly it's not deemed suitable for mainstream consumption. Permits are there for those sorts of reasons.
        Never the less, the regulation is much less stringent for pet-food manufacturing. You can't sell horse meat for human consumption. But that's not prime steak in those cans of pet food...
        The base point is that it's foolish to relocate animals that are slaughtered only a daily basis.
  • AussieCynic, on 05/17/2008, -1/+2Part of the problem here is the general lack of understanding...
    Yes we have loads of roos and they can be in plague proportions
    However numbers have been falling over the past 4 years..
    “But four years ago they were saying there were 65 million kangaroos in Australia, now they’re saying there are only 20 million. We’ve had 10 years of heavy drought and incessant heavy commercial shooting.”
    The majority of people see the roos as pests because they will travel and gather in an area where food and water is available. But what you do not see is the lack of them in other areas...
    I have had one or two hopping alongside my car on a highway at 3am, and seen them on the side of the road but I have never hit one...
    It could be good luck or it could be the fact that I slow down at night and have never hit an animal on the road..
    If they removed the fences the roos could leave, and save the Government the money to relocate them.. and at least give them a chance to get away from the bullets..
  • blangley, on 05/17/2008, -1/+4I live in Canberra and In fact Im driving around in a hire car as I hit one last week at Dusk. This Roo did 8k damage to my car and sadly the park ranger had to shoot it.

    The fact is in Canberra we are in a draught and with the way we have managed the environment we have thrown the natural balance and most of the mechanisms that control population. The ranger that night had back to back road kill calls to attend to which he suggested is one of the reason our insurance premiums are a little higher.

    In Canberra you cannot go anywhere without either seeing a damaged car on the side or the road, a carcass and even a group of Roos running across traffic.

    For the love of god allow the Park Rangers to restore the natural balance.
  • methos75, on 05/17/2008, -1/+1I am not against the Killing of roos, hell I cull Coyotes so I understand how a pest animal is, but honestly just like here in the US the only way the Rangers could restore Natural Balance is too cull Humans. We really are the pest Animal there and not the Roos, we placed the fences up, we built the roads in their lands, we built the Channels and ditches that make droughts so bad on the land, and we killed their predators. Never say that an Animal needs to be culled to restore order, because 100% of the time it is we that ***** that order up. Say it for what it truly is, they need to be culled because they interfer with us.
  • meachen, on 05/17/2008, -1/+1Good target practice for attack helicopters and tanks
  • BECoole, on 05/17/2008, -2/+1Another example of a Gov't taking what could be a money-maker and turning it into another taxpayer boondoggle.
    They could sell rights to hunters to come in and harvest the Roos, but instead they are going to pay someone to do it. I wonder if they will even use the meat?
  • MattH, on 05/17/2008, -1/+2Roo Meat is great eating very lean and gets a high price on the Restaurant table in Australia and worldwide so why not commercialy harvest these Roos for profit ????
    • chaddles, on 05/26/2008, -0/+1Only male kangaroos of about 2 years old are harvested for meat. Generally they are taken from kangaroo populations that aren't already on the brink of starvation. How lean do you like your lean meat?
  • KungFuJesus, on 05/17/2008, -2/+1It's DEFENSE
  • iwantamonkey, on 05/17/2008, -0/+2Roo meat is flavorsome and easy to cook. Fry it or grill it like you would beef, but for only about two minutes. The cooked meat will be very red. The only seasoning it needs is a little salt and pepper. Voila.
  • Khemikl, on 05/18/2008, -0/+1I like 'roos but they are out of control. Kangaroos; much like rabbits breed proportionally to the availability of grass (the lawn not the smoking sort), since the arrival of Europeans and their axes grasslands have replaced forests everywhere. That means we have a plague of 'roos - if you don't want them culled why don't you adopt them? they average 4-7 feet, eat your lawn and can kick the ***** out of anyone, great replacement for a dog.
  • diceau, on 05/18/2008, -1/+1Yeah because humans aren't a pest that need to be culled or anything ...
  • sjt333, on 05/18/2008, -0/+0they are kangaroos people theres a crap load of them in australia stop complaining
  • parrotscience, on 05/27/2008, -0/+1Kangaroo is absolutely delicious - I would eat it regularly while in Australia. Now that I'm back in Canada I'm looking for a source!!
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