Green | October 03, 2008 | 11 comments

How To Eat A Kangaroo

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The question of how to eat an environmentally-conscious meal has a number of answers. For example, in Australia, researchers have suggested that kangaroo meat would be an ethical replacement for beef.
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11 comments // How To Eat A Kangaroo

  • insider2002
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      insider2002  
    • I 100% agree with baresirt..also:

      And too those people who say it is not ethical or better for our environment; In general 10-12 kangaroos eat as much as one 450 kg dry/steer cow. Therefore, if you start eating the animal that is using and essentially 'wasting' the pasture that it eats, then:
      -You reduce the demand for beef
      -You decrease the amount of water and fodder required (which is very difficult to come by in many parts of our country)
      -You give farmers a way to use the 'pest' or animal which is eating our useful stocks' food and water.

      And by the way; the meet is great.. especially lean and very tender if you can cook it right!

    • 3 years ago
  • baresirt
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      baresirt  
    • This is not an ethical issue. We are Humans, we eat meat and plants. I forget what that is called, meat and plant eaters. We eat these foods because our bodies requires the nutrients in those animals and plants. As far as farming the animals, well, I personally don't want to run out of food supply or eat them to extinction. As far as eating plants, how different is it from eating an animal. A plant is also living, yet we kill it and eat it. This is ok, but animals are not. By some belief all living, animal and plant life, have a sort of a life force, energy. In Korea, they eat dogs. In other countries people eat bugs. In India, cows are worshipped. But we, in America, are appalled by these. Why? Food is food. We eat what we like and ridiculed what we don't. As long as we don't eat anything to extinction, I think it's ok. For those of you who think it is just brutal to kill another animal for food, chances are some of you have the most vicious animal in your home as pet and you never even thought about it. The house cat is the most vicious animal. Why? Because, while every living animal, even us humans, kill to eat, the house cat is fed. It does not have to kill mice for food. But they do, not for food, for fun, for game. So the bottom line is, eat the damn kangaroo. If you don't like it, then don't eat it. Did I make a lot of people angry? There is truth in what I have said.

    • 3 years ago
  • Davey1000
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      Davey1000  
    • In the 1970s I lived in Evesham Worcestershire UK. There was a local pie factory that made really excellent meat pies and I must have eaten dozens of them if not hundreds. The company got into trouble because their lazy mechanic who maintained a fleet of about 50 vans had been using the same van with different number plates to get test certificates for the other vans! After this fiddle was discovered Trading Standards checked the pies and discovered a percentage of kangaroo meat! They were really excellent pies nevertheless.

    • 3 years ago
  • SDLN
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      SDLN  
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    • If only there were a theme restaurant where the customer could beat a kangaroo to death with his bare fists before field dressing the fallen and grilling it up as steaks. That might satisfy our blood lust. :)

    • 3 years ago
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  • eatbhath47
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      eatbhath47  
    • The root of the problem is factory farming. If we can stop the way animals are treated (bred to consumed- born to be killed), we wouldn't need to feel so bad about eating other animals. The fact that meat is wasted (a pointless death) at all is a major "WTF"...

    • 3 years ago
  • trailb12
  • wholefreespirit
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      wholefreespirit  
    • Awe, man! I can't do it...I just can't eat meat at all anymore, (well not completely...I still eat fish). I just can't justify all of the meat that goes bad and never gets eaten in the stores. Something died for that? Nah....I'd rather eat beans and rice...it's the perfect protein on a molecular level, and doesn't make me feel morally challenged.

    • 3 years ago
  • arcticspirit
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      arcticspirit  
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    • I checked with some of my Aussie friends on this... got some interesting facts:

      "You need to eat it fairly rare or it goes quite tough, but it's delicious. A delicate, slightly gamey flavour. It's also one of the leanest meats I've ever eaten."

      "It's good stuff."

      "...does it improve your jumping ability? " Answer : NO.

      "Marinated kangaroo fillets are available in a local supermarket and they are remarkably tender even if you accidentally overcook them. The marinade is not particularly strong in flavour but there is no residual gamey taste from the meat. When we were children we went on a school camp where we ate kangaroo tail roasted on an open fire with the skin on in the traditional aboriginal manner and it was delicious although a little stringy."

      Does change the idea of bbq roo?

    • 3 years ago
  • julesrs007
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      julesrs007  
    • It is not so 'ethical' if you're a kangaroo!

      The only environmentally ethically correct decision would be to significantly reduce the amount of meat consumed.

      It is difficult to understand how eating any animal, can be considered an "ethical and or environmental ethical" choice... killing hurts not matter what your species.

    • 3 years ago
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