Roo Cull

[a20089]

HOW! can you people say such things about our national treasure, the animal that symbolises Australia to the world. This is just horrendous I could never live with myself knowing someone would want top kill a kangaroo.

Na bull**** they taste great marinated, no need for the dog to get the meat.

[Baconer]

red wine sauce with slow cooked kangaroo steaks, perfection

[GTR32GUS]

If anybody has ever dressed a roo for dog meat they could tell why u shouldn`t eat roo meat but since a few ppl here have ate it I might not say anything....................ar what the hell they are full of worms like full of them millions of them

[Frink]

im sure they wouldn't serve it in a restaurant if it wasn't safe to eat.... it does taste great though, you should try it! the worms are just extra flavour

[race_snooze]

another 3 new dead ones this morning and one car still smashed on the side of the road!!

[GTR32GUS]

im sure they wouldn't serve it in a restaurant if it wasn't safe to eat.... it does taste great though, you should try it! the worms are just extra flavour

All the worms are in the gut so it really doesn`t matter , just gross me out

[Helious]

What is also funny is that although the activists stress how important the issue is to them, over 80% of them did not show up one morning till like 10:30 because it was TOO COLD...oh they really love nature...they probably just use global warming as an excuse and complain about that.

As far as im conserned, if we cant eat it, ride it, train it, harvest it or mine it; its as useful as (thinks of an example that isnt police, indicators(for some motorists) or politicians)..oh black ice. They cut down thousands of trees to build gungahlin dr ext. and they are more useful then kangaroos so i dont think they will consider the 'humanitarian approch'..which is still killing them anyway...

I agree with Datto, instead of spending the money on transport just so they can be kulled by someone else, send it to China.

[Michele]

All the worms are in the gut so it really doesn`t matter , just gross me out

well, being an ex farm girl (for most of my life) I can say, that the roo is the only meat I have ever seen that has worms (long ones) through the flesh, mainly the meatier thigh areas and seem to be along the veins, but trust me (I'm not shitting you) its not just the gut.

[GeeTR]

This thread rocks, agree with it all!!

I'm dodging the things every 2nd night - never met a group of ppl so like minded about the topic, you'd think this was a car forum lol

Michele - Thats nasty, reminds me about a video we saw in a highschool agriculture class. The Roo you eat, wouldn't just be wild stuff though?.. would it?... aww i ate 600g worth last night.. feeling sick now.

[Frink]

hehehe.... gross

[datto260Z]

Me, i need the target pratice.

haha, can anyone take their own riffles down for a shoot? Id love a crap property that has no value to just blast away, 2 problems solved at once.

I recall being posted to Puckapunyal during the roo cull there. The roos were so inbred and diseased that they couldn't even jump straight and would even do sommersaults. It was actually pretty messed up. Anyways, we were on stand by as there were meant to be massive protests (a few bus loads from Melbourne) and it was all over the news. I remember driving out the front gate into town during it and seeing 2 cars on the side of the road and 4 people with signs (can't remember what they said). These people were claiming it was so inhumain, there was no alternative, but they wanted them moved. Idiots. Good to see so many people were so passionate about it too. Though I think the public thought that it would be the military doing the shooting (seeing some of the guys shoot, id be worried too ), we only helped when we had the chance (not that we would ever do anything on purpose ).

/End rant again

[tridentt150v]

Me, i need the target pratice.

As someone once said "Go west young man", eastern/western grey's are every where out west, I've seen plagues of them from Deni/Hay/Balranald to Bourke/Wilcannia/Nyngan. I actually feel for the red and the blue flyer, I reckon they are being eaten out of existance by the grey. The only way we can add balance to the wallaby/wallaroo/red etc is to cull the grey to give the others half a chance.

[tridentt150v]

haha, can anyone take their own riffles down for a shoot? Id love a crap property that has no value to just blast away, 2 problems solved at once.

Only problem with that thought is you need tags or face being dobbed in and paying huge fines for shooting a protected species [yes, 'roo's are protected]. Don't get me wrong, I'd like to see the grey culled heaps, especially in the national parks and state rec area's etc where they are taking over.

[jenkies]

i agree with the cull altho i dont agree with the expense.... just get every man and his dog to go hunting!! make roo hunting a national icon keep the numbers down i say...

sure its nice to see a few up the flinders but numbers do need to be controlled

worms i love roo meat but this has rewined it for me

[Michele]

Surely they worm the farmed roos.

Says here 'newly' identified... I've seen these worms going back to when I was a kid, they're not new worms, but perhaps newly identified, or a different species.

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http://www.awpc.org.au/kangaroos/book_files/diseases.htm

A newly identified worm thought to be derived from marsupials was found to be responsible for acute illness in two humans. Like Trichinella they invade muscles. The worms are thought to belong to a class of nematodes known as Muscpiceoids. In wallabies and possums these nematodes live in several tissues of the body and can invade muscles.

In his paper to the University of Tasmania (1997 114 ), Professor John Goldsmid said, "Kliks (1983) identified the aetiological agents of human infectious diseases as "heirloom" or "souvenir" species, depending on their evolutionary association with humans. Amongst the most important of the souvenir species are the zoonotic infections, infecting humans as a result of animal-human contact of some kind and varying from companionable contact to utilisation of animals as a food source.

In the last 25 or so years, of 35 new or newly recognised infections in humans, 20 (57%) have been zoonotic in origin - some trivial, some devastating to both the individual and the community.

With the increase in the numbers of immunocompromised people in the community resulting from medical treatment or as a result of the spread of AIDS, the problem of zoonotic infections will continue and there seems little doubt that the likely source for many of these new human infections in Australia will be the native animal population.

People who eat undercooked wallaby or kangaroo meat could be at risk of infection by a newly-discovered animal parasite, Australian doctors have warned.

The parasite was found in a Tasmanian man who suffered from inexplicable and severe muscle weakness over a number of years. He was known to consume large quantities of game. ("Parasite Risk to Game Eaters" November 7, 1997 Animal Pharmacology No. 384)

Laboratory tests suggests that the parasite is a new species of microscopic worm. It may also have been responsible for a similar infection in a New Zealand woman who had eaten wallaby meat while visiting Tasmania.

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Still hungry?

[tridentt150v]

My roo hunting episode............

[Baconer]

Anyone else hear about the kangaroo BBQ at the Defence site in front of the activists, cant remember the name of it but it was something along the lines of kanga-banga-sanga something. The look on the activists faces would have been priceless

[SKYLVIA]

everyday on my way to work I see at least 2 to 3 new dead ones on the side of the road, thats a lot of money being spent to fix ppls cars and clean up the mess.

Or you could slow down at night and keep an eye out for wildlife? I see heaps of roo's heading home from the gym going past the dump, but ive never hit one...

Sure, they're over populated, but so is China, you don't see them killing every second born child... I don't see why animals should be treated any differently to humans...

It'd be nice if they could be relocated, but thats not how Australians want to spend their tax dollars... Plus they can disturb habitats for other animals, even if relocated... as long as the cull is being done humanely and with as little suffering possible.

[madbung]

Surely they worm the farmed roos.

Same stringent safe guards are inplace for farmed roo as any other "farmed food" animal, cattle, sheep...whatever

I wouldn't recommend shooting one down the back paddock and throwing it on the bbq, but anything on the supermarket shelf or restraunt should be ok.

[Redback]

ha ha ha... worms... tickle on the way down.