Recently The Guardian printed an article called ‘Like champagne, mate’: how a US kangaroo ban could kill off an Indigenous opportunity | Indigenous Australians | The Guardian
The following is an emotional response from an Indigenous woman, Aunty Ro, who is devastated by the way Australia kills her beloved Indigenous animal totem – the kangaroo.
Approximately 60% of Australia’s land is used for grazing livestock and growing crops. Another 17% is mined by mining companies. Agriculture and mining utilise 77% of Australia’s total land mass. At least 80% of Australia has been cleared of native vegetation. Australia has lost 25% rainforest, 45% of open forest, 32% woodland forest and 30% of mallee forest in 200 […]
Kangaroo meat is sold as a healthy red meat. Videos and photos depict clean, modern, refrigerated plants where the carcasses are processed for sale. What isn’t advertised is the inhumane way kangaroos are slaughtered, nor the unhygienic conditions in which kangaroos are hunted, gutted and transported. The public is being fed false and misleading information so that an industry can […]