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Global Warming: Loons Gone Wild #10

Looks like the Global Warming Loons are at it again, this time Downunder and encouraging eating roo meat instead of beef.

From Herald Sun

The controversial call to cut down on beef and serve more of the national symbol on our dinner plates follows a report on curbing greenhouse gas emissions damaging the planet.

Greenpeace energy campaigner Mark Wakeham urged Aussies to substitute some red meat for roo to help reduce land clearing and the release of methane gas.

Something to think about: raising more kangaroos for human consumption in place of cattle will not do much, if anything, to reduce the amount of green house gas emissions. They will have to raise significantly more of the critters to match the consumable output of a good steer, and it doesn’t taste as good as a classic t-bone steak. Nor is a leg of roo as appealing as a leg of lamb.

It also coincides with recent calls from climate change experts for people in rich countries to reduce red meat and switch to chicken and fish because land-clearing and burping and farting cattle and sheep were damaging the environment.

Chickens don’t pass gas? That’s news to me. Try riding your bike past a poultry farm and see how nice it smells. Okay, pigs smell worse than poultry.

I like chicken, fish, turkey, duck, and so on. But how much of the land does grazing live stock damage? I wish I had a copy of the report that shows that a significant amount of the land used for pasturing cattle is ill-suited for row crops like tomatoes.

As for eating roo instead of red meat, I’ve had roo. It’s okay but it ain’t beef.

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