Thanks to all this talk about carbon emissions a battle has begun and its kangaroos versus cows and sheep.
Don’t scoff, this is big ticket stuff.
Climate advisor Ross Garnaut wants us to all eat kangaroo and be done with cattle and sheep, to save the environment.
It’s become a Green catch-cry too.
But I can just imagine what graziers all over Australia are thinking today, after picking up their paper, or surfing the news sites on the net: “Over my dead body.”
But before we dismiss this as carbon-talk gone mad - why not go halfway?
Why not use what we shoot anyway, what we have in plague proportions, to create a healthier, less cost and carbon intensive industry? To partially replace our reliance on what we usually eat?
Seriously, if you haven’t tasted roo, you’re missing out.
And yes, it’s Skippy, I know. But most of eat Jessie the Cow and Sean the Sheep, right?
So do you eat Skippy?