Would you switch from Beef to Kangaroo, to save a planet?

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I would be unwilling to give up the sign value of cattle. The Egyptians did not worship kangaroos, and nothing says “your pagan gods are no gods” like slaughtering bulls and lambs.

Also, kangaroo milk? Kangaroo leather?
 
No and give up on steaks, hamburgers, fajitas, oh no. Could not do it.
 
The carbon output of the ships needed to bring the Roos to NA is likely to negate any C savings.

The Roos are 9,000 miles away. The cows are raised within sight of my current place of abode.

Think globally, but act locally.

(And, before anybody brings THAT up, I’ll only become vegan the day after the sun turns to seawater!!! :):))

ICXC NIKA.
 
I’ll eat and barbecue anything that had a pulse once upon a time, or that didn’t have a pulse once upon a time.

They need to start raising them in the continental US though. The Pacific is a long trip. Lingering cultural ties would also need to be severed to prevent underground collaboration. Teach the little kangaroo pups the national anthem and how to hop on the right side of the road, etc.
 
GEddie said:
The carbon output of the ships needed to bring the Roos to NA is likely to negate any C savings.

The Roos are 9,000 miles away. The cows are raised within sight of my current place of abode.
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Nah, just bring a pair and multiply. It’s what Noah did, right?
GEddie said:
(And, before anybody brings THAT up, I’ll only become vegan the day after the sun turns to seawater!!! :):))

ICXC NIKA.
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Hear, hear!

On a side note: for the welfare of the planet? I’d go vegan. But you’d have to prove me that we can save more resources by eating vegan than by eating meat… which, currently, is NOT true.

Just the technology used to make supplements has a higher impact on the environment than me simply murdering my cat to eat (which is just a hypothetical scenario, of course; she’d kill me first, given the chance…)

Other than that, if roos are tasty, send them my way. You never know, might taste better than beef 🤷

PS: you guys up there in the North hemisphere don’t know what good meat is anyway. Specially you, UK! :mad: I spent an awful chicken-only year over there in 2014, with your cardboard tasting meat… ugh! (but your milk is delicious!). It was the easiest Lent I ever went through, no meat for the whole season!

Come here around Brazil and Argentina for some real grilled meat (good meat needs only salt as seasoning, no sauces whatsoever), or go over to Japan for a soft Kobe. Then we can talk.
 
Kangaroo is a very lean meat requiring very little over cooking to make it tough and inedible.
Unfortunately, in the bush it also carries significant parasite infestations and needs to be processed quickly to enable human consumption. I see little value in trying to make this meat a staple in place of the more economic beef cattle. You would easily tire of kangaroo meat.
 
The NH is a **big **place and there is plenty of good beef in Alberta, Canada, as well as here in TX.

ICXC NIKA
 
This first time I came across these in a major grocery store chain, I think my expression was something like this:

:bigyikes::bigyikes::bigyikes:

Kangaroo steaks:

woolworths.com.au/Shop/Browse/meat-seafood-deli/specialty-poultry-game?name=macro-meats-kangaroo-steak&productId=132996

Kangaroo burgers:

woolworths.com.au/Shop/Browse/meat-seafood-deli/specialty-poultry-game?name=macro-meats-kangaroo-burger&productId=713466

Kangaroo kebabs:

woolworths.com.au/Shop/Browse/meat-seafood-deli/specialty-poultry-game?name=bbq-kangaroo-kebabs&productId=799566

No, I still haven’t been able to bring myself to try any of it. :nope:
 
Prefer not to eat anything that had/has a pulse if I can help it! 🙂
 
Did try Kangaroo once…couldnt eat it…
Kept bouncing round the Plate
 
How much meat can one procure from a kangaroo vs. a cow?

What percentage of the kangaroo is edible vs. a cow?

I would still say substituting kangaroo for cow is still a waste because you can still produce an assortment of dairy products from a cow. Just thinking about dairy from a kangaroo and one can’t help but gag.
 
A more salient question is would people happily at least try kangaroo meat first?

I’ve not actually eaten kangaroo meat (I’ve had ostrich, which was rather tasty, slightly to my surprise); I would be willing to tie it.

I think there there are two things to ask:
  1. Will replacing beef with kangaroo make a significant contribution to our environmental impact? (You presumably get less meat from a kangaroo so you need more if people continue to eat as much meat as they do)
  2. Are people willing to make relatively small sacrifices like this one, in order to help the bigger picture.
One doesn’t need I think to ONLY eat kangaroo, but it’s demonstrable that human beings growing and eating so much beef is less than stellarly healthy either for the planet or ourselves.

Short answer - It is probably not necessary for all of us never to eat beef again. It is probably helpful if we all cut back a bit and replace.
 
Catholic1954 said:
I heard it taste like chicken.
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Like venison, as someone said earlier. Very lean so if you don’t like your meat medium rare at best, then give it a miss. A lot of the larger supermarkets stock it down here.

Skippy and chips. Mmm.
 
Good questions:thumbsup:.
Candidly, I started the POLL with a desire for humor rather than as a serious proposition.

Personally, steaks are a treat for me. I tend to eat more chicken, turkey and pork. In North America, perhaps eating more Bison vs beef is the realistic eco choice. However, I couldn’t find a flatulence comparison between cows and bison.
Murmurs said:
A more salient question is would people happily at least try kangaroo meat first?

I’ve not actually eaten kangaroo meat (I’ve had ostrich, which was rather tasty, slightly to my surprise); I would be willing to tie it.

I think there there are two things to ask:
  1. Will replacing beef with kangaroo make a significant contribution to our environmental impact? (You presumably get less meat from a kangaroo so you need more if people continue to eat as much meat as they do)
  2. Are people willing to make relatively small sacrifices like this one, in order to help the bigger picture.
One doesn’t need I think to ONLY eat kangaroo, but it’s demonstrable that human beings growing and eating so much beef is less than stellarly healthy either for the planet or ourselves.

Short answer - It is probably not necessary for all of us never to eat beef again. It is probably helpful if we all cut back a bit and replace.
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