Kangaroo – The Other Red Meat

Australian meat producers may soon be borrowing this ad campaign slogan from the American Pork industry. Today in ECON 201, the Environmental Economics group presented, and included in the presentation was a new campaign by the Australian government to reduce methane emissions. They feel that if Australians would switch from eating beef or sheep to kangaroo meat, Australia's emissions would be significantly reduced. Grazing cattle and sheep are one of the largest emissions of methane in the world, and in most countries, forest land is cleared for grazing land, reducing Oxygen production. I really didn't think this could be true, but sorry Kangaroo Jack, I was able to easily find the real campaign online.

Naturally, I HAD to find out how this would work, so here it is. Apparently, kangaroos produce acetate in the digestion process instead of methane, and naturally graze on the low brush abundant across the Australian plains. No new land would have to be cleared and irrigated for grazing cattle or sheep, and it would only take 175 million kangaroos to replace the current hooved hamburgers. Now, I'm all for reducing pollution, but what's wrong with free range chickens?