Greenpeace urges kangaroo consumption to fight global warming

Greg · 10-10-2007, 10:59 PM

Here's some news that I'm sure you just can't live without:

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/sto...80-662,00.html

Miros1 · 10-10-2007, 11:45 PM

<feeds beans to the kangaroos so they fart more>

Nope, that won't help! The kangaroos are farting now!

homerette · 10-11-2007, 05:24 AM

Haven't Greenpeace ever heard of Beano?!

Greg · 10-11-2007, 12:05 PM

shorty943 · 10-13-2007, 08:29 AM

Delicious. No Cholesterol, high in protein, no fat. It's health food. Yum.

The leg is roasted, with sweet potatoes and all the trimmings, the backbone eye fillets, are a treat done as a "Wellington" style, smothered in smoked oysters and wrapped in filo pastry and baked. The tail makes a marvelous soup, in place of Ox tail. On the "barbie", as a pot roast or a nice winter casserole, or hot pot. Kangaroo and Emu are both very healthy meats.
Roast Emu leg, Mmmm. Even a Texan would struggle to eat an Emu drumstick. But, should love trying to. With Native Bush Tomatoes, Quondongs (a native citrus) and Kakadu Plums of course. Nasturtiums, Pigface and Sea Lettuce for salad.

Kangaroo and Emu in all traditional cuts, including sausages and Mettwusts, exported from SA, by Macro Meats.

Greg · 10-14-2007, 04:09 AM

I would expect kangaroo meat to be dry and tough.

Miros1 · 10-14-2007, 10:18 AM

Probably like all meats, it depends on how you cook it and how old the animal was.

Greg · 10-14-2007, 12:36 PM

That's part of it, but the amount of fat in the meat and how well marbled the fat goes a long way to making it palatable. I would guess that kangaroo meat is much like horse meat. You have to add fat to keep it from coming out like shoe leather and tasting rangey, which rather defeats the idea that it's a low-fat meat.

shorty943 · 10-15-2007, 01:32 AM

Oh, not so. Rose is right. Roo can become a little "chewy" if over cooked.
It is a game meat, so, hot and fast is the general rule, for grills, etc.
Cook to medium rare at most. Most importantly, let it rest before serving.
I still get praise from a friend, about a camp fire cooked pot roast of Kangaroo, I cooked about 6 years ago. Multi-national group, Vietnamese immigrants, Iranian refugees, and other assorted folks. Invited out for a week-end in the real Aussie bush, and, they keep coming back for more to this day. I like that, these folks have even bought their own genuine Aussie camp swags. That's our version of a bed-roll, all set-up in its own canvas weather-proof single, or double if you prefer, pup-tent.

Roo is really a very good meat, especially health wise. Oddly that is one thing European settlement has done. The clearing of so much natural scrub-lands, and the sinking of bores, and watering points set up for livestock and cropping, has given the Kangaroo a helping hand.
Oh sweet times, lots of tucker, water every where, in comparison to what was the natural lay of the land. Yep the Roo, has had a breeding frenzy, for a couple of hundred years now.

Lots of roo to eat, come and get it.

Greg · 10-15-2007, 05:05 PM

Exactly how this relates to global warming is still a mystery. I would guess that someone noted that kangaroos are less flatulent than cows but since they are both vegetarians and have similar diets, that doesn't seem likely.

Miros1 · 10-15-2007, 09:09 PM

Cows and sheep are ungulates or some word like that... means they chew their cuds which makes them burp and fart more than kangaroos. Burping produces CO2, farting, CH4...

Wrong word... ungulates have hooves. Ruminants chew their cud!

Greg · 10-15-2007, 10:44 PM

Hmm... I suspect that carbon dioxide production is a function of an animal's metabolism regardless of how it eats, and methane production a function of what food is broken down. But don't kangaroos eat grass?

Miros1 · 10-15-2007, 11:24 PM

Bio major hubby sez cows and other ruminants have symbiotic bacteria that helps them digest the cellulose walls of grass. The byproduct of this is... methane.

Other animals just let it go through as fiber.

Shorty will have to continue the lecture on kangaroo diet.

shorty943 · 10-22-2007, 07:59 AM

Wow. I've been away for a week?

Somehow I think the Greenies get a bit carried away with their number crunching.
Ruminant and vegetarian diets do cause much flatulence, as witnessed in the, Mountain Gorilla, the Orang Utang, cows, and Greenies.
Yes, Kangaroo's eat grass, and pass a pellet like dropping, similar to sheep or goat. Not so much of a "farter" as the cow or pig, not so much the methane machine.

That's about it, my knowledge of Kangaroo diet, consists mainly, of its benefit to my diet.

Greg · 10-22-2007, 05:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by shorty943

Somehow I think the Greenies get a bit carried away with their number crunching.

Nawwwwww... They wouldn't, would they?

From the folks who brought you ozone depletion caused by freon, malaria caused by bomb craters, tornadoes caused by big trucks, species extinction caused by hunting, cancer caused by supersonic flight, global warming caused by humans burning hydrocarbons, and hurricanes caused by global warming, now comes kangaroo flatulence! Oh, what will they think of next?

Miros1 · 10-22-2007, 08:35 PM

Quote:

species extinction caused by hunting

That one's a fact. Or did you see a passenger pigeon at the RenFaire?

Shorty, I don't think the 3 primates on your list are considered a major source of methane farts. It's the cows...

Greg · 10-22-2007, 10:54 PM

The passenger pigeon was wiped out by destruction of its habitat and the fact that the species couldn't survive in flocks of less than 100,000. There haven't been enough shotgun shells produced in all of human history to have accounted for even a measureable fraction of the passenger pigeon population.

Miros1 · 10-23-2007, 03:25 AM

You hunt small birds with nets, not shotguns.

Greg · 10-23-2007, 04:28 PM

Well, ya learn something every day! I've never heard of netting passenger pigeons!

Miros1 · 10-23-2007, 08:11 PM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passeng...ods_of_killing

Apparently, some were shot, but with the masses of birds in nesting areas, I'm sure nets were very effective...

10-10-2007, 10:59 PM	#1
Greg Da Guy Wut Owns Dis Joint Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Texas Posts: 3,566	Greenpeace urges kangaroo consumption to fight global warming Here's some news that I'm sure you just can't live without: http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/sto...80-662,00.html __________________ Who are all these people and what do they know?

10-11-2007, 05:24 AM	#3
homerette Day late & a dollar short Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: central VA Posts: 206	Haven't Greenpeace ever heard of Beano?! __________________ May the roof above us never fall in, and may we friends gathered below never fall out.

10-11-2007, 12:05 PM	#4
Greg Da Guy Wut Owns Dis Joint Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Texas Posts: 3,566	__________________ Who are all these people and what do they know?

10-14-2007, 04:09 AM	#6
Greg Da Guy Wut Owns Dis Joint Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Texas Posts: 3,566	I would expect kangaroo meat to be dry and tough. __________________ Who are all these people and what do they know?

10-14-2007, 12:36 PM	#8
Greg Da Guy Wut Owns Dis Joint Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Texas Posts: 3,566	That's part of it, but the amount of fat in the meat and how well marbled the fat goes a long way to making it palatable. I would guess that kangaroo meat is much like horse meat. You have to add fat to keep it from coming out like shoe leather and tasting rangey, which rather defeats the idea that it's a low-fat meat. __________________ Who are all these people and what do they know?

10-10-2007, 11:45 PM	#2
Miros1 Goddess for Life Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: NY State Posts: 3,303	<feeds beans to the kangaroos so they fart more> Nope, that won't help! The kangaroos are farting now!

10-13-2007, 08:29 AM	#5
shorty943 Banned Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 805	Delicious. No Cholesterol, high in protein, no fat. It's health food. Yum. The leg is roasted, with sweet potatoes and all the trimmings, the backbone eye fillets, are a treat done as a "Wellington" style, smothered in smoked oysters and wrapped in filo pastry and baked. The tail makes a marvelous soup, in place of Ox tail. On the "barbie", as a pot roast or a nice winter casserole, or hot pot. Kangaroo and Emu are both very healthy meats. Roast Emu leg, Mmmm. Even a Texan would struggle to eat an Emu drumstick. But, should love trying to. With Native Bush Tomatoes, Quondongs (a native citrus) and Kakadu Plums of course. Nasturtiums, Pigface and Sea Lettuce for salad. Kangaroo and Emu in all traditional cuts, including sausages and Mettwusts, exported from SA, by Macro Meats.

10-14-2007, 10:18 AM	#7
Miros1 Goddess for Life Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: NY State Posts: 3,303	Probably like all meats, it depends on how you cook it and how old the animal was.

10-15-2007, 01:32 AM	#9
shorty943 Banned Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 805	Oh, not so. Rose is right. Roo can become a little "chewy" if over cooked. It is a game meat, so, hot and fast is the general rule, for grills, etc. Cook to medium rare at most. Most importantly, let it rest before serving. I still get praise from a friend, about a camp fire cooked pot roast of Kangaroo, I cooked about 6 years ago. Multi-national group, Vietnamese immigrants, Iranian refugees, and other assorted folks. Invited out for a week-end in the real Aussie bush, and, they keep coming back for more to this day. I like that, these folks have even bought their own genuine Aussie camp swags. That's our version of a bed-roll, all set-up in its own canvas weather-proof single, or double if you prefer, pup-tent. Roo is really a very good meat, especially health wise. Oddly that is one thing European settlement has done. The clearing of so much natural scrub-lands, and the sinking of bores, and watering points set up for livestock and cropping, has given the Kangaroo a helping hand. Oh sweet times, lots of tucker, water every where, in comparison to what was the natural lay of the land. Yep the Roo, has had a breeding frenzy, for a couple of hundred years now. Lots of roo to eat, come and get it.

10-15-2007, 05:05 PM	#10
Greg Da Guy Wut Owns Dis Joint Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Texas Posts: 3,566	Exactly how this relates to global warming is still a mystery. I would guess that someone noted that kangaroos are less flatulent than cows but since they are both vegetarians and have similar diets, that doesn't seem likely. __________________ Who are all these people and what do they know?

10-15-2007, 09:09 PM	#11
Miros1 Goddess for Life Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: NY State Posts: 3,303	Cows and sheep are ungulates or some word like that... means they chew their cuds which makes them burp and fart more than kangaroos. Burping produces CO2, farting, CH4... Wrong word... ungulates have hooves. Ruminants chew their cud!

10-15-2007, 10:44 PM	#12
Greg Da Guy Wut Owns Dis Joint Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Texas Posts: 3,566	Hmm... I suspect that carbon dioxide production is a function of an animal's metabolism regardless of how it eats, and methane production a function of what food is broken down. But don't kangaroos eat grass? __________________ Who are all these people and what do they know?

10-15-2007, 11:24 PM	#13
Miros1 Goddess for Life Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: NY State Posts: 3,303	Bio major hubby sez cows and other ruminants have symbiotic bacteria that helps them digest the cellulose walls of grass. The byproduct of this is... methane. Other animals just let it go through as fiber. Shorty will have to continue the lecture on kangaroo diet. Last edited by Miros1 : 10-16-2007 at 04:48 AM.

10-22-2007, 07:59 AM	#14
shorty943 Banned Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 805	Wow. I've been away for a week? Somehow I think the Greenies get a bit carried away with their number crunching. Ruminant and vegetarian diets do cause much flatulence, as witnessed in the, Mountain Gorilla, the Orang Utang, cows, and Greenies. Yes, Kangaroo's eat grass, and pass a pellet like dropping, similar to sheep or goat. Not so much of a "farter" as the cow or pig, not so much the methane machine. That's about it, my knowledge of Kangaroo diet, consists mainly, of its benefit to my diet.

10-22-2007, 10:54 PM	#17
Greg Da Guy Wut Owns Dis Joint Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Texas Posts: 3,566	The passenger pigeon was wiped out by destruction of its habitat and the fact that the species couldn't survive in flocks of less than 100,000. There haven't been enough shotgun shells produced in all of human history to have accounted for even a measureable fraction of the passenger pigeon population. __________________ Who are all these people and what do they know?

10-23-2007, 03:25 AM	#18
Miros1 Goddess for Life Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: NY State Posts: 3,303	You hunt small birds with nets, not shotguns.

10-23-2007, 04:28 PM	#19
Greg Da Guy Wut Owns Dis Joint Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Texas Posts: 3,566	Well, ya learn something every day! I've never heard of netting passenger pigeons! __________________ Who are all these people and what do they know?

10-23-2007, 08:11 PM	#20
Miros1 Goddess for Life Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: NY State Posts: 3,303	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passeng...ods_of_killing Apparently, some were shot, but with the masses of birds in nesting areas, I'm sure nets were very effective...