eating kangaroos will help climate change

The basis behind this it the simple fact that cows, pigs, and goats all produce huge amounts of methane gas which is bad for the environment; but, kangaroos don't produce methane gas. (Personally, I would not want to be the scientist who checked each of these species to see what they "produced".) I think that this could be an alternate food source for places where they can be raised; but, I do not know if they could be raised in large enough numbers on continents other than Australia. I am not exactly sure what they require and they coould probably jump most fences. I also don't think they can be "milked" like cows and goats; so we would still need herds of cows and goats for milk, cheese, and ice cream! Kangaroos may look "cute and cuddly"; but, they can actually be rather dangerous and one attacked an elderly woman who was near her home on a ranch in Australia just a few weeks ago. She was saved by her dog that drove the kangaroo off; but, she still had to go to the hospital.

I couldn't do it. Besides being cute and unusual, I'd be afraid of developing an uncontrollable urge to hop everywhere I go. Seriously though, I suppose it would depend on how plentiful they are. In the states, hunting the deer has only resulted in overpopulation in some areas. I know that sounds unusual, but nowadays the hunters have been unable to keep up with the quota set forth by the game authorities. I believe I read somewhere that there are more deer killed by drivers than by hunters. The more there is for the deer to eat the easier it is for them to propogate which also makes for a healthier species.

So they'd start raising kangaroos instead of cattle? I'm sure there are other problems with that, probably not found out until many of the cattle operations have been dismantled. Then, too, you'd have to create a market for kangaroo meat. There might already be one in Australia, but apparently not a very big one. I eat meat and I would eat kangaroo, but eating it probably wouldn't make much difference in climate change! It might help a little if the whole world swore off beef and destroyed all the beef cattle out there, and that won't happen.

Eating kangaroos? I don't think that eating animals like kangaroos will help climate change.

sorry this is not intended to hurt anyone ... i have heard than some countries (not naming) actually include the kangaroo meat with their beef exports .. I am not sure how far it is true ... will the beef eaters actually taste the difference between the two ... But in a very neutral note : when people eat chicken,cow, fish another living being it does not make different if they eat kangaroo, rabbit or human right ? why suddenly should they feel when it is kangaroo By the way ... i eat chicken and seafood .. yummy ... yummy

I would eat probably anything once (more if it was nice lol) but i heard they are looking to control the cows dna to stop it producing so much methane. Thats why they are looking at kangaroos they don't fart (or not as but i can't remember).

I don't think that eating kangaroos will help climate change. The two subjects are not related. Climate change is effected by other sources such as gas emissions not by animals. © ronaldinu 2008

Deer populations have risen in the United States of America because the predators have been almost entirely eliminated. And then there is the question of hunting only the males of the species which leaves us with more females to reproduce. It is not a thing that calls for much brain power to see.And in may place they are eating moat of the vegetation and causing great damage to their environment. Around the man made lakes they are eating the foliage of of the evergreens that help to keep soil from washing away when it rains. I think that kangaroos could be ranched and harvested in a way as to keep the population under control. I think that as long as a population is healthy then there should be no reason that some of the animals can be harvested. This would take some of the pressure off of less populated animals.

I am not a vegetarian but I have never eaten the meat of a kangroo and its real amazing and intresting for me that people in Australia eat the meat of kangroos. We here in Pakistan eat meat of cows, goats, buffalos, chicken, fish.

People eat kangaroos? This is unbelievable! I guess kangaroos are of important social status such as pandas in China.

I don't think take wild animals as food is a good idea. I often worry about if they are still live on the earth 20 year later. But some experts say that if you take them as food, more people will feed them as commodity and they population will be enlarged. Maybe it is not bad to take kangaroos as foods.

Yes, this has been a fairly controversial subject Down Under, probably for quite some time. I didn't see it on the telly, but I don't watch it much at all these days. I tend to agree with you that meat eaters may see this as an easy way out - but really it is not! The reason for this lies mainly in the amount of meat available on each kangaroo that is fit for human consumption - sorry, that experts claim is fit for human consumption! I sighted one report that claimed this figure to be roughly 15% of the roo, whereas a larger percentage of cows are used. If people still wanted their meat so badly, they could grow it in a laboratory like the solution, or rather the million dollar competition, that was run by PETA some time ago.