The Australian government's climate change advisor, Professor Ross Garnaut, has suggested that reducing sheep and cattle numbers and replacing them with 175 million farmed kangaroos would help to dramatically reduce Australia's greenhouse gas emissions. Read more here.
Yep. The concept of a climate crisis can be used to justify all sorts of things.
A problem for the kangaroo industry has been the lack of a reliable market in large part because of animal rights campaigning against the killing of this Australian icon, and cute and cuddly.
The late Steve Irwin was against the idea of farming Australian native animals and supported a campaign that forced David Beckham to stop wearing kangaroo skin soccer boots.
There are better reasons than 'climate change' for eating what I have called 'Nature's natural bounty' including kangaroo and also whale. But we first need to overcome some of our cultural aversions. Read more here.
Pat, its just another day in the peoples republic of dumbturdistan.
We could build an entirely new city of 4 million people for only a quarter of the outlay that will be needed if Sydney is allowed to double it's population to 8 million by 2050.
Take that a step further and we could build 8 new cities of 500,000 for only one quarter of the cost of that new city with 4 million people.
This single policy outcome would reduce the average commuting time from 3 hours each day to 20 minutes each day but the Ruddites are pissing about with already outdated car engine technology.
My rural shire has been green dominated since 1988. It has a high proportion of single mothers in rental housing but the nearest three primary schools have bare paddocks all around them. Apparently, their concept of "sustainable development" doesn't include having houses where the kids can walk to school and the mums can dispense with the 3 o'clock trafffic jam.
Garnaut's ridiculous suggestion has greatly discredited him and all his research on Climate Change. With at least six new coal mines about to go ahead in the Galilee basin in Central Queensland, more new coal mines mooted in NSW, massive roadworks and freeway construction everywhere to accomodate even more cars, (as though anyone will be able to afford to put fuel them in 5 years time).....and Garnaut is concerned about a few cows farting........
If thats the best solution Government advisors can come up with....we are all in a lot of trouble! Unfortunately the silly idea has caught the attention of the International media, who seem to love silly stories, (and the Australian media seems to come up with a fair few) so the nonsense has had wide overseas coverage. No wonder we are seen overseas as a cruel barbaric nation.
The problem with the farming and domestication of kangaroos is that the wild ones will become a disease risk and will need to be eradicated. Farm kangaroos in other countries, not Australia!
(By domestication I mean selective breeding for desirable traits e.g. meat production, tameness, tastiness etc)
Guano is a few 'Roos short of a mob.
When the govt. in the form of Ross Garnaut comes into our house and tells us what to eat they have lost the plot. Stay out on the streets where you belong and remember, your job is to serve us.