Is it immoral to eat kangaroo meat?
 

Is it immoral to eat kangaroo meat? Surely it must be wrong to eat Kangaroo meat. Kangaroos have highly developed emotions and strong family links. Breaking of these strong bonds in the relationships between kangaroos is likely to cause immensly high levels of distress to the kangaroo community?

Let me know what you think?

Re: Is it immoral to eat kangaroo meat?
 

So Blim, are you a meat eater?

never mind the roos.......YOU ALL EAT SHEEP.

poor buggers:)

Re: Is it immoral to eat kangaroo meat?
 

I think its important to select meat that isn't distressed. I think that the important point

Re: Is it immoral to eat kangaroo meat?
 

Kangaroo Meat isn't as readily available for humans as many people think. It is in aussie themed restaurants along with emu but eating my national emblem doesn't get my saliva glands going.

My cat Betty has 'roo' meat every night for dinner.. it is sold mostly for pet food here.

Immoral...............nah......bit tough though !!

bon apetit!

So Blim, are you thinking it might taste a tad stringy? (due to the distress). Perhaps you could try offering it a lollypop to come to the back of the abertoir with you.
Welshboy... stop worrying about them darn sheep!:rolleyes:

Re: Is it immoral to eat kangaroo meat?
 

i think that you will find that most animals are disressed when they are being killed (years of experience in my youth working in a chicken factory)


arlene

i would imagine death to be quite distressing.:rolleyes:

Pigs are social animals too...

I'll eat anything, but i have to admit that the way some animals are treated (chickens in particular) are pretty bad.

Humans are natural meat eaters, we are all designed to be omniverous.

As for roos....

Roos used for meat (either for humans or petfood, or any other use) are i beleive farmed, so the effect on the roo community would be small.

Had roo burgers when i was out there....they were ok, similar to any other burger. Can't beat a nice bit of good quality steak in my opinion. Ostritch is nice too.

PeteY,
you are a man after my own heart (or aftre my Roo.)

I've had a roo steak in North Wales of all places and it tasted ok to me!
I'm sure I've seen it in one of the big supermarkets in the UK just after I had it. I'll have a look tomorrow and let you all know.
(The wife just gave me ever such a bad look as I told her I'd eaten sme roo.:scared:)

Bye all
Markeh

I like a bit of 'Beef' myself........ ;) LOL

To be honest,,,,,ill eat anything.

British, Indian, Chinese, mexican, you name it, I love it.

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Fish...now there's a distressed meat....how does it taste to you????

:scared:

A whole community, nay, population wiped clean in an instant.

Give <")))>< a chance I say !

:)

Don't think I could eat Skippy as I grew up with him/her?
Any other not a problem.Our dogs eat horse meat we wouldn't dream of it but many nations do including the French but they also eat snails:scared: :scared:

love tuna ... its basically all I live on apart from an occassional banana or avacado pear

basically i think it's clearcut. Scientific research shows that <")))>< do not feel pain. Kangaroos are different you might think this is a laughimg matter but whole kanagoroo comunitees may suffer for generations to come over just one kanagoroo being caught and eaten.

How do we know how emotional they get? You can tell by looking in their eyes. I consider kangaroos are getting sadder each year. I don't know how much more they can take.

We must take action

Blim

Let's make a stand with Blim, hands off the Marsupial hoppers,
Can't have W.B.Billy involved though with his sheep worrying,
any sheep let loose with our hopping friends we could end up with a continent full of woolly jumpers:scared: :scared: :D

where my folks live they have to shoot the roos on their land or the council come and do it for them and charge them twice once for the cull and once for carting away the carcasses. They also have to shoot the dingo's but have never seen any in the area.

Yeah! And a tuna wouldn't raise the alarm when you've been hit on the head by a stray branch now, would it?

Sorry Blim but that's not correct. :lecture:
<")))>< may not have evolved a hypothalamus region of their brain to compute what higher animals perceive as pain but they do respond to damaging stimuli / actions or substances. They have elaborate systems of sensory cells around their mouths which have parallels with some mammals. They would notice (?) having a metal hook ripping all that tissue apart. :eek:

But to get back to your point....

You are right; roos are having a hard time by our hand.
The best profit / meat comes from the alpha males which endangers the socio- and biological infrastructure of the entire species.

I'm not a vegetarian by any means, but any blood sport makes me sick to my stomach.

Not necessarily they would have to know that their cousine-kangaroo was eaten. We will take him away descritly pretending that he or her is going to better place now. I agree we must respect their feelings evethough we eat them.

Personaly I wouldn`t care to eat damn koala or kiwi bird !

Somthing i will never get is why people can eat a hunk of cow once its been celophaned up, but they won't touch rabbit, because is cute.

Bunny stew is once of lifes real treats ;)

Just out of interest, do you object to leisure anglers downunder fishing for a bit of dinner?

MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM washed down with a nice ale eh
:beer: :beer:

:) :) :) :p Rabbit stew MMMMMM:) :) :) :)

Yep, and with a little plate to spit the shot onto :)

I prefer to shoot rabbit with a rifle less chance of cracking a filling on some shot. I did a Hare stew once and it was peppered with buckshot made it hard work If I hadn't used a full bottle of red to marinade the meat I'd have given up, the gravy was excellent though.:D:D :D

How's about we eat your Liver with a nice chianti.

Hannibal Lecter.

Bye the time we get there my liver will resemble George Best's old one:beer: :beer:

Sink your teeth:

Animal activists must share roo plague blame

A Viva! Report on The Killing of Kangaroos for Meat and Skin

An alternative view?

Veggies have rights too !

Personally I love a nice kangaroo steak in red wine sauce, but if you want to get really distressed let me tell you that my father's (good ole Southern US boy) favourite meal is squirrel stew. adelaidegirl

the reason why Kangaroo meat is so tender:

have you seen the numbers of wheels on those road trains?

badge
:D

PMSL! how can you tell that they're sadder? Are they not going out? staying at home? drinking more? buying more tissues? Posting only negative threads? no don't tell me, they've nicked your prozac too?:D :D :D

I think 'Blim' is winding you guys up here!

A new poster with comments about roo's getting sadder each year? Come on!

Did you see his first post?
Are we thinking about going to Ausi land? Noooooooo!

i have to agree it's got to be a wind up;)

Hi,
Just thinking of one of those legs, with a spicy crisby crumb coating mmmmmmmmmmm, with fries of course.:D

Arron

Adelaide soon please!!!!!

roo tails are an aboriginal delicacy,I went to a remote Ozzie town called Fink and the local store had a freezer full of em.
They stick em in the ashes of a fire and chomp away like a big pepparami.

yummy

I kinda worked that one out too, hence my silly answer;)

Had a nice chat with blim in the chat room last night

Thanks Sky had a nice chat with you too.