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2008/24: Should kangaroos be commercially farmed in Australia?
Introduction to the media issue
Video clip at right: Fair Companies (www.faircompanies.com) is an American organisation offering "community and access to tools on sustainable culture". This video puts the case for kangaroo as a better alternative to traditional red meat, such as beef. This video should be treated as comment. If you cannot see this clip, it will be because YouTube is blocked by your network. To view the clip, access from home or from a public library, or from another network which allows YouTube clips.
What they said...
'For most of Australia's human history-around 60 000 years-kangaroo was the main source of meat. It could again become important'
The final Garnaut report
'It really is an absurdity to suggest and it reflects very poorly on Garnaut that he would make such a suggestion. Anyone that's ever had anything to do with kangaroos knows that they're a nomadic animal'
Mallee livestock and crop farmer, Mr Leonard Vallance
The issue at a glance
The final report from the Federal Government's chief climate change adviser Professor Ross Garnaut has recommended that agriculture should be covered by a carbon trading scheme.
Despite the report proposing some free permits, paying for livestock emissions would be so expensive under the report's recommendations that beef and lamb production would be likely to reduce and kangaroo production increase.
Professor Garnaut has recommended that seven million cattle and 36 million sheep would have to be replaced by 175 million farmed kangaroos.
The report's recommendations have been opposed by a range of farmers' associations.
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