"The Victorian Government has lifted a ban for harvesting kangaroo for human consumption.

Animal welfare groups say Australians shouldn't be eating native wildlife, but game processors and harvesters welcome the changes.

Author Bruce Pascoe says it’s “illogical for [Australians] not to eat a kangaroo but will eat a cow."

So will kangaroo meat ever become the main protein on our dinner plates?"
http://www.abc.net.au/radio/melbourne/programs/theconversationhour/the-conversation-hour/13096954

I'm with Bruce Pascoe on this.

Is Mise,

What about dogs and cats?

Especially given that Australia is now an Asian nation-state.

Is it legal to eat dogs and cats in Australia?

And don't forget about bats! Yummy . . . . . . a big bowl of Wuhan Bat Soup . . . . . . . it's the sort of stuff dreams are made out of.

Opie,

You been eatin' the bat soup again?

Kangaroos are too charismatic for me to eat, but I fully support the right of others to do so.

Who are these alleged "animal welfare groups" that don't?

Kangaroos are not only pests - with some attacking humans - they are dry and tasteless to eat, along with all low cholesterol tucker.

The proof is in the pudding . . . . . . or dog soup in this instance:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2taXU08ZfY

Lap it up . . . . . . . . . woof! woof!

Hi Issy,

I've tried roo, and well ok, stinks when being cooked. I've tried witchetty grub (uncooked) as a kid, tasted like raw egg yoke. It time to plug your book once again. Let me do the honours.

'Road Kill Recipes for the Unsuccessful Hunter'

I highly recommend Issy's, "Fricasseed Galah with Wombat Sauce" goes extra well with a drop of Issy's homemade Emu Wine.

I though you would prefer an Elephant Stake from your good mate Fat Bob Ballsup.

Sorry Issy I was joking, Elephant Steak, that was a mistake.

Paul1405,

If you were aware of what an egg is structurally you wouldn't touch one with a ten foot pole.

Mr O are you familiar;

Century eggs (Chinese; pinyin: pídàn; Jyutping: pei4 daan2), also known as preserved eggs, hundred-year eggs, thousand-year eggs, thousand-year-old eggs, millennium eggs, skin eggs, or black eggs, are a Chinese preserved egg product made by processing duck, chicken or quail eggs in a mixture of clay, ash, salt, ...

ScumO' said his glove puppet Silly Simon Birmingham is being egged on to have an egg fight with Uncle Xi. Me thinks poor Simon ended up with egg on his face.

Actually, 'roo cooked properly is really good tasting meat, unfortunately, I have had to stick to venison since it became unlawful to hunt 'roo for food; the boys shoot some each year but they have to be tagged and left to rot where they fall.

Does provide some meat for the feral carnivores though.

Why don't we just eat each other

AC had a girlfriend once who used to try and eat me and me eat her. A bit hard to handle and all in the back of the 69 Kingswood. Me thinks she and I were carnivorous, sweet girl.

Issy, did you ever get to try your mate Tony Azzi's 'Baked Wombat with Koala Stuffing'? A little bit rich for my liking. But after having a Fat Bob Ballsup gigantic elephant steak on the bbq, you'll eat anything.

Yes Issy, I can just imagine it, you and me, Fat Bob and Wombat Tony sitting around that peaceful camp fire at night. Listing to the screams of a freshly caught little fury woodland creature we're slowly roasting alive over the open fire for dinner. As Darryl Kerrigan would say, "Ah, the serenity of it all".

Paul,

The expected recourse to your brand of humour, can't stand it that Bruce Pascoe is in favour of killing 'roos for food.

Bet you love the fact that he shoots kangaroos.

Golly, an activist for the Aboriginal people who owns a gun, hunts and kills his own food.

What will the Greenie lovers of feral cats say?

Is Mise,

What is the common factor pertaining to all life?

I reckon it is that all forms of life are feeders.

I can't think of any other thing that all forms have in common.

Whether you're a kangaroo eater, a vampire, a tree or a bacterium, isn't one just a feeder.

My God Is Mise, I think we've just discovered the meaning of life: It's a Big Mac!

Hi Issy,

Why, an activist for the Aboriginal people (Bruce Pascoe) who owns a gun, hunts and kills his own food. The two are not mutually dependent on each other.

You could have just as easily asked; an activist for the Aboriginal people (Bruce Pascoe) who owns a car, drives it and puts petrol in it.

I support the proper professional management of sustainable resources, kangaroos included.

We differ somewhat on gun control, where you support the open slather approach. I'm somewhat more reserved, can't support arming 5 year old school children etc, as some do. I do recognise the need for limited guns in the community, sadly such professional people as police, military and some professional civilians as well. Not in the hands of the amateur irrespirable gunnie mob.

Did the recent changers to "gel blaster" legislation in Queensland upset you? No longer can nut jobs dress up as GI Joe, and pretend to be Rambo, running around the streets and parks terrorising people as they take pot shots at each other, and bystanders, with their fake M16's, splattering people with raspberry jelly blobs, pretending its fake blood! Another example of Gunnie irresponsibility!

Surely you Mopie Jest!?

Being serious Issy

You commoner you.

I've always coveted Emu.

Emus are so ugly Greenies and Animal welfare groups (AniLoops) couldn't care less.

Just one Emu at Woolies could roast on an industrial scale, much cheaper than chickens.

A leg of Emu would last me a month! Yummy.

Check it out http://emulogic.com.au/pages/about-us

PRINCE Pete

We found a roo with a broken hip down the paddock. Ran into a gate post I think. Rang the wild life welfare people whop offered to come & put it down. We could do that so told them not to bother.

Not wanting to waste all that meat, we offered some to the dogs, who turned their noses up & walked away. Raw or cooked, the dogs didn't like roo any more than I do.

I guess I'd eat it if I was hungry enough, as we all will be if China decides to cut off our supply of petroleum fuels, but without such an incentive, they are safe from me, & my dogs.

Hasbeen,

The trick is in the preparation and cooking.

My mum used to slice the meat about a 1/4 inch thick, make a paste of tomato, onion, a bit of garlic in Worcestershire sauce; spread between each slice, bind the whole lot together a la a roast and cook slowly for a couple of hours.

Mouthwatering.

Legs, she slashed to the bone every inch, marinaded overnight in a red wine based mixture and cooked in a slow oven for around three hours (depending on size0.

Can't be beaten!!

Hi Issy,

Is it in the book? Sounds yummy! I see no problem with eating Roo, the early British invaders were reduced to trying to eat Galahs.

BTW, are you too embarrassed to make comment on the 'Gel Blaster' clowns, if I was a responsible gun owner I would be. You and I might differ about guns, but I recognise you as a responsible gun owner. Fair dinkum, there is one of these jelly shops not far from me, it opened up about 2 years back. Its become a sort of meeting place for these clowns, grown men dressed like GI Joe, leaning up against beat up mud splattered old cars. They've obviously been flogging around in the bush playing Rambo. Same goes for the 'paint ball' nonsense. I commented on the greenie possum person, so tit for tat, you comment on the jelly people.

Fellow Royal Brave Sir Issy

Tonto say "You speakum truth, King Osobi, umm, matelot."

http://www.sbs.com.au/food/article/2017/02/01/parrot-pie-and-possum-curry-how-colonial-australians-embraced-native-food

PARROT PIE, POSSUM CURRY and KANGAROO

how colonial Australians embraced native food"

"Kangaroo and wombat appeared in Australia's first cookbook - but appreciation wasn't universal.

...In a section dedicated to game meats, Abbott featured recipes for KANGAROO

emu, wombat and other native fauna. There were a number of recipes for “kangaroo steamer”, a dish that had been popular for at least almost half a century across the colonies.

Kangaroo steamer was a colonial adaptation of the traditional British dish of jugged hare and involved slowly cooking kangaroo meat with bacon and other seasonings. The dish would be cooked in a glass jar or earthenware vessel and sealed so it could be stored for an extended period."

Your Good Lord

Planta

Howdy ho Pete,

Are you related to Jed Clampett by any chance? Granny could knock up a mean possum stew, with grits and racoon gravy. I remember Jethro Bodine from school, he was that smart kid sitting in front of me.

Howdy ho Issy,

Where's your answer to my jelly question!

Paulo

The Clampetts jist happen to be viry close friends'o mine.

Don't knock aroma of skunk in the fryer till ya tried it.

I was given a recipe for galah years ago.

Put the galah, a large rock & a 4 by 2 of pine timber in a large pot. Add water & boil for some hours. When a large fork will penetrate the rock, chuck out the galah & the rock, & eat the nicely tenderised bit of pine, which will be nicely infused with the delicate flavor of boiled feathers.

Back in my youth we had an old neighbor who used to grow a few acres of wheat each year in the old way. He plowed & planted with a horse drawn implement, harvested with a horse drawn mower, then thrashed the wheat after drying with a steam powered thrashing machine. We kids loved watching, it was like having a living museum on our door step.

The drying wheat & the large spillage from the thrashing attracted hundreds or perhaps thousands of galahs which he used to shoot. He had little choice, the galahs would take the lot if left alone. Hating waste, he used to bury the galahs in rows across the paddock, reckoning they took his wheat, but he got it back as ferteliser.

Meanwhile I'll miss the garlic & herb added thanks. I've never been able to understand why people add bits of roots & leaves of weeds to their food for flavoring. I'll take mine natural thanks, or not at all.

How can anyone see similarities with cats or dogs with kangaroo.
There is no kangaroo where i am but we are overrun with wallaby.
There is no foxes because they are targeted with gusto. and worth $15 / tail.
The fox destruction is to protect the few native guinea fowl left in Victoria.
So someone has to the control the Wallaby population or else i will get eaten out, and that is not good for food production for human beens

I'm sure others have heard that kangaroos are better for the environment than sheep because they don't eat the grass to the ground- at certain times kangaroos have become a plague. Anyway there are too many people in the world and probably in Australia too if they need to create a law to stop eating kangaroo. Kangaroo stew is great- all game meat takes some getting used to.

CM,

Not really:

http://ourworldindata.org/world-population-growth

Joe

Canem Malum,

If you want to keep kangaroo numbers down just introduce an invasive species into the bush: the Chinese.

They'll eat anything that moves, from bats to cockroaches to kangaroos.

They introduced large numbers Chinese into Sydney and now there is hardly a Bogan Australia (aka Australian Australian) in sight. I'm not saying the Chinese ate them but I reckon they definitely scared them away.

Thanks Mr Opinion- That got a laugh.

Loudmouth- Your site says ... "First published in 2013; most recent substantial revision in May 2019.... The world population increased from 1 billion in 1800 to 7.7 billion today."

Answer-

Anyway it's my personal belief that there are too many people in the world. This is indicated by global migration patterns, fresh water supplies, congestion, endangered species, decline in the value of people, introduction of broad based tyrannical laws on the basis of economies of scale/ necessity, reduction in personal space/ living space, etc, etc.

These sites are interesting...
http://www.worldometers.info/world-population/
http://www.worldometers.info/world-population/#table-historical

According to site-
Current population 7.846 Billion
The historical table indicates that population is currently growing at about 1.02% reducing at about 0.02% per year- currently growing at 81.3 million/ year (without the corona effect- could mean a higher birth rate which doesn't show up for 9 months- of course it also could mean a higher death rate that shows up immediately- see site below).

Another site...
http://www.macrotrends.net/countries/WLD/world/death-rate

Another site ...
http://worldstatistics.live/population

Current World Population
7,846,711,790

TODAY
Births today
255,347
Deaths today
107,197
Population Growth today
148,150
THIS YEAR
Births this year
18,687,347
Deaths this year
7,844,511
Population Growth this year
10,842,836

Canem Malum,

Are you making the argument for the re-introduction of cannibalism?

Mr O, remember the great Bogan philosopher Confusion said last Wednesday; "It all tastes like chicken when it is cooked." That roughly translate to "@#%$ &^%% *$#@# #$ *&^$".

Paul1405 said- Canem Malum,Are you making the argument for the re-introduction of cannibalism?

Answer- I said what I said. Interesting Paul1405's question about cannibalism given his left leaning views in the context of claimed cannibalism in Mao's china- not to mention the deaths of ten's of million's in his cultural cleansing. That's not to say that Paul1405 intends to kill ten's of million's of people in his pursuit of ideology- but I'd ask him to think carefully about the direction of his policies in order to prevent such a future catastrophe.

It's interesting how the communists talked about stopping fascism and racism and inequality in the 1920's before proceeding to kill millions of people.

The communists generally counter by talking about the world wars that also killed millions of people and that they were created by the fascist elites and industrialists- all the while creating an unassailable elite- protected by armies and spies- unanswerable to those far below their tower.

Lest we forget...

But cannibalism is an interesting question and highlights the bottomless degradation possible in an infinitely dangerous chaotic world without the borders and people that protect us in our sphere of safety.

Many things are an exercise in balance- and power.

Communists and Globalists are an interesting study in the use of power.

War creates thieves- peace hangs them.

The structure of Traditional Parochialism seems to have a way of correcting the imbalances in society in a way that Globalism doesn't.

I admire the simple village wisdom of my ancestors- bless my grandparents..

In a sense perhaps Aristotle's study of politics has caused it's invasion into all areas of life. Perhaps not what he intended- the errors of the unintended results of policy- a lesson for us all.

Perhaps the fallacious lesson of all that attend university is the misplaced belief that we can and should change the world. So the error is compounded to a whole line of pedagogy stretching to Socrates.

I still believe "the unexamined life is not worth living" but with a subtlety.

We often forget the human scale and the garden that it needs to grow.