Australians say eating kangaroos will save the world

Times Online (U.K.) ^ | 8-9-08 | Sophie Tedmanson

[Renfield]

Australian scientists have come up with a unique way to combat climate change: eat kangaroos and save the world.

A study claims that farming and consuming more kangaroos instead of cattle and sheep will reduce carbon gas emissions.

According to the scientific journal Conservation Letters, the Australian icon produces far less methane than sheep and cattle. Methane is one of the worst causes of greenhouse gas and in Australia alone sheep and cattle produce 11 per cent of the nation’s total emissions.

Kangaroos, on the other hand, produce relatively small amounts of the gas because they are not ruminants; as with wallabies, the microorganisms in their stomachs differ from those found in sheep and cattle....

[Hyzenthlay]

OK, there’s four of us now... I just don’t like the taste or texture of meat that much, although I will eat it occasionally so I don’t become anemic (eating meat once in a while is easier than figuring out what vitamin supplements to take and how often). I especially don’t like ground meat - just the concept sort of unappetizing to me.