How is kangaroo meat "green food"? It's a red meat, and although kangaroos don't cause the environmental destruction and ghg emissions of cattle and sheep, the industry is not sustainable.

Numbers of kangaroos fluctuate with food sources, and their numbers cannot be accurately assessed.

Only about 10% of the meat is human-edible quality, and to reach maturity takes years.

The method of killing is inevitably cruel, and the young are killed too. The meat cannot by hygienically stored and transported from heat and dusty bushland, at night. Kangaroos are wildlife and should be protected.

@Beatrice... maybe you should stick to your tofu burgers and stay in the inner city with the rest of your latte sipping skivvy wearing green voting friends.

The kangaroo industry is very sustainable. Free range meats are very desirable to many in this country and abroad. There are also many health benefits from eating lean meats.

Why would we kill an entire industry based on distorted facts from the anti kangaroo harvesting lobby. Too often emotion gets in the way of facts and your statement is a prime example.

How stupid can animal libbers like beatrice get.

Western Qld is over run with roos at the moment and even derm agrees that there is a 60% increase in numbers.

Only an ignorant urban person who has never travelled outside a city, hasn't seen the environmental damage that the large numbers of roos do. There may be a good season at the moment but the roos have begun the next drought already.

There is not a better renewable resourse industry in Aust than the kangaroo meat industry.

Beatrice would not even think what happens to the over population of roos if they were not harvested humanely.

That's great news, finally things are sorting themselves out for the better. We have huge numbers of roos and its great to see them going to good use.

I also agree with the comments of Chris and R. I've never seen a shortage of roos when I'm out and about on friends farms especially ones that border National Parks or as I like to call them Feral Breeding Grounds, the amount of uncontrolled ferals that come out of National Parks is just amazing.

Yes I know roos are Natives to me that makes no difference they need to be controlled and what better use for them than food for humans and pets.

It is livestock, feral animals and humans that do "environmental" damage.

City livers are always condemned as ignorant, but those in the country are more likely to be blinded by vested interests. Those without bias are more likely to see the clearer picture.

Kangaroos have lived in Australia for millions of years and are not an environmental pest.

Their soft paws help germinate seeds and they manage native grasslands. They are also natural fertilizers. Kangaroos are simply scapegoated. Not only do they have to survive commercial killings, but drought, fires and land degradation.

@ Chris.The tired old cliches you use about Kangaroo supporters are as outdated as your information and thinking about Kangaroos and the industry.

@ R I think you need to watch some news and do some reading, there are floods in QLD and NSW, Kangaroos die by the thousands in floods and after suffer 'post flood die back' where they are hit with diseases causing a loss of many thousands more.

A question for both of you: If as you think Kangaroos breed out of control, how come this country survived so well before white man came here?

By the way, I live in the country!

Cienwen, when Captain Cook first hit Australia, there was very little permanent water in the pastoral lands west of the Great Divide. Now, there is a network of bores, windmills, dams, troughs, boredrains all supplying water points within a few kms of each other. On our place in outback Qld there is water provided so that most of our stock don't walk more than 2 km to water, before this the distance would be 100's of km. Roos breed like rabbits, capable of quadrupling their population within 5 years. They are robust & healthy in their native state, making them an ideal clean game meat.

That the kangaroo has become a resource after decades of ignorant perception as pests should not be a surprise.No public education has been undertaken,where Australians should have been deprogrammed from this propaganda,and is an indictment against those that are now in support of this massacre. Most Australians think that Kangaroo numbers are far higher than they are .It is in the interest of Governments the kangaroo industry and landholders to uphold this myth.

A few tired old cliches too from the anti-cull mob.

An unexpected headshot whilst grazing is not cruel. Shooters I know don't target does with joeys, oh yes, they do have a vested interest in the industry! Roos swim like eels, but generally will move out of an area en masse when floods are coming, to us that is a sign of rain or flood. We clean & repair massive flood - gates after these events, rarely find a dead roo, if at all They are remarkably free of disease. Drought is their worst enemy. Roos are a pest that will denude paddocks being spelled from livestock.

By the way, I like roos!

Kathleen you are the chief perpetrator when it comes to ignorant perception, also telling fibs - massacre! this is a controlled cull & the designated numbers for each season are rarely reached.

All food animals are native wildlife to some country so this resource shouldn't be wasted. I know you think that no animals should be eaten so your view is distorted anyway. If you saw one of our paddocks where we would run 1000 sheep with 3000 roos in it (no lies), would you think that was just a myth? You need to get out of fairyland & look at the real world.