blog.craiga.id.au — Kangaroo Meat

Turns out it’s not farmed, but hunted.

Markets for meat and skins are limited and are adequately supplied from the existing rangeland harvest (i.e. kangaroo hunting). Farmed kangaroos could not compete successfully in these circumstances because of high costs associated with establishing and operating a kangaroo farming enterprise.

The feasibility of farming kangaroos by NC Shepherd

I’m trying to eat as much kangaroo as possible as it’s supposed to be much more sustainable, but the idea of eating a wild animal leaves me feeling a little … iffy about the whole thing.

Published: Sunday, 26th October 2008 at 11:50 PM

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By day, he works for ABC TV as a web dev­el­oper. By night, he plays bass gui­tar in Look Who's Tox­ic. He also runs a little Unix Time­stamp con­ver­sion site. There are plen­ty of other things he should be doing, but most of the time he's dreaming of what he'll do when he grows up while watching bad Star Trek spin-offs.