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My dog will be eating...kangaroo!
Freejack
Jake the Not-so-Wise
in Zocalo v2.0
That's right.
Was at the vet last night, he seemed to thing my basset hound has a food alergy, so he perscribed on hypo-alergenic dog food. He kept calling it Kangaroo and Oat. My wife and I thought that was a funny name for a dog food (its by IAMs BTW).
Anyway I got it home and looked at the ingredients...right there on the label, the second item on the list, kangaroo! All this did was create a whole list of questions, not least if which:
a) Where in the hell do they get kangaroo meat to put in dog food
b) What in the world make kangaroo hypo-alergenic
c) Who in the world thought of using a marsupial from Australia as a compnent for dog food?
d) Finally, why does it need to be kangaroo? Would other species of marsupial do, such as Opossum?
Jake
Was at the vet last night, he seemed to thing my basset hound has a food alergy, so he perscribed on hypo-alergenic dog food. He kept calling it Kangaroo and Oat. My wife and I thought that was a funny name for a dog food (its by IAMs BTW).
Anyway I got it home and looked at the ingredients...right there on the label, the second item on the list, kangaroo! All this did was create a whole list of questions, not least if which:
a) Where in the hell do they get kangaroo meat to put in dog food
b) What in the world make kangaroo hypo-alergenic
c) Who in the world thought of using a marsupial from Australia as a compnent for dog food?
d) Finally, why does it need to be kangaroo? Would other species of marsupial do, such as Opossum?
Jake
Comments
C answers A,
B answers D
and for some reason, when I saw "Opossum" the first thing that came to mind was to parady the poem "O Captin"
Opossum! Opossum! Your faithful trip is over!
You crossed the track
at half passed four
and ran into a mack!
or something like that....
I'm done now. :D
ALERT, ALERT, Condition RED, RANT CANNON ENGAGED
Kangaroos and stupid fucking tree hugging misguided fucktard hippies
- a rant by your favourite ranter the unparalleled Shadow Boxer
Australia is a vast country, it's ecosystems very much controlled and dominated by the availability of water. South Australia is the driest state, in the driest contienent in the world, (techincally its Antarctica but lets face it, snow is certainly preciptation).
The limits of the Kangaroo's range was defined by the distance from available water. While there was a great deal more forageable feeding area, the 'Roo's simply couldn't reach it without dying of thirst in travelling to distant grazing.
No-one really knows how many Kangaroos were on the Australian contienent when English colonists arrived and began the process of altering the Australian landscape in a vast and drastic way.
Part of this landscape change was pastoralists sinking bores for stock water. The great artesian basin in Australia is massive, it's the largest in the world. It means that even given it's fairly saline water, that if you can drill deep enough you're guaranteed water over huge tracts of the Australian continent.
Whats all this got to do with Kangaroos ? Simple. With the advent of watering troughs dotted all over the country, in distances which were a very lazy hop apart meant the Kangaroo has enjoyed an increase in grazable range of perhaps 800-900%, almost a tenfold increase in range. There's no possible fucking way that the Kangaroos numbers have declined, even in recent years with ecological degradation. 'Roos are so tough, I'd say they'd be here when even the cockroaches are dead...
'Roos are incredbily efficient breeders, perfectly adapted to thier native land. Even with the culling and predations of introduced animals the 'Roo has thrived.
They required almost zero husbandry, they do not destroy the environment like introduced sheep, cattle, donkeys, goats, camels and brumbies (horses), which are feral out here. Ferals wreck our thin soils and out compete and cause localised extinctions of some species of natives flora and fauna.
Getting back to 'Roos, thier meat is incredibly lean and tender and very low in cholesterol. It's extremely good for you, in fact Freejack... you're pooch is eating better than you are. 'Roo meat is very low in common allergy causing biochemistry.
So whats my beef ? (pardon the pun)
Fairly simple really.
Would you believe that the Kangaroo is listed as an 'endangered species'.
There perhaps isnt a bigger load of categorical bollocks that that particular listing.
There are billions of the fuckers every fucking where. If we Aussies could actually sell Kanagroo products without PETA and all the other well meaning but totally misguided bleeding hearted dropkicks, we could reverse much of 200 years of degradation to this land in a decade or so by actively promoting and farming 'Roos.
We cant sell Kangaroo products broadly or for human consumption, because they are an 'endangered species'. Even typing that makes my blood boil. The body governing the species list is based in the USA, and run by powerful greenies, the hairy lesbian vegan buzzcut hardcore variety, without a clue as to what real positive balanced ecological management is.
I eat 'Roo regularly. It's great stuff.
Kangaroo leather is the most supple, flexible and strong leather known to man. They make the absolute best Soccer boots and clothing from it. It also needs far less nasty chemicals to treat/manufacture it.
'Roo fur luvverly too.
Not that any of that makes much diference. We'll continue to fuck our pastoral outback with sheep and other introduced domestics and feral animals until the American public pulls its head out of its butt and sees through the propoganda pumped out by the vegan lesbians.
We have very limited exports of Kangaroo products, which PETA is busy trying to destroy as we speak. That's why 'Roo appears in pet food. It's much lower in profile, not as many green idiots get upset about feeding 'cute fuzzies' to pets.
So...
WEAR ROO FUR and LEATHER
EAT 'ROOS
LOVE AUSTRALIA
DOWN WITH GREENZEALOTS !
~~~~~~
*deep cleansing breath*
thankyou...
(with apologies to the nice vegan lesbians everywhere, I'm just using a stereotypical image)
you can eat possum too... ask Biggles for a recipe. Possums are feral in NZ.
SB, if you would, please describe the meat, is it more like beef, deep red that turns to a dark gray when cooked or chicken, light color that turns white when cooked, or pork red, that turns white when cooked.
Also, what's it taste like? And if you say chicken, I may need to use a FWWAAAPP on you!
Jake
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
[B]Hmm, well that was enlightening, I'll have to try some kangaroo meat if I ever make it to Austrialia.
SB, if you would, please describe the meat, is it more like beef, deep red that turns to a dark gray when cooked or chicken, light color that turns white when cooked, or pork red, that turns white when cooked.
Also, what's it taste like? And if you say chicken, I may need to use a FWWAAAPP on you!
Jake [/B][/QUOTE]
Just taste it, its not like dog food is bad for you.
[B]maybe it's like shark meat...
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm [/B][/QUOTE] I love that stuff; I make my family buy me some shark steak every year for my birthday.
next up on my list: alligator tail and grasshoppers
It certainly isn't poisonous mate.... buy some, eat it. :) Enjoy.
If you can find kanargoo meat somewhere, even as petfood, don't be shy, the petfood line and the human consumption line are one and the same, they simply change the bag/label it goes in. Mind you I would imagine you cant find actual Kangaroo, (not processed and mixed in with other foodstuffs).