So, you'd like to eat kangaroo meat?
Or a couple of kangaroo sausages, or "kangabangers" as the Industry calls them? Well, read on......... Kangaroos are not farmed, they cannot be. They cannot be herded or enclosed. They cannot hop backwards. They are hunted at night, blinded with a spotlight, and shot in the outback, amongst the dust and the flies. They are hung on the side of truck, and gutted. Then they driven around the dusty paddocks, and at daybreak they are taken to a chiller box, maybe many kilometers away. The chiller box is a refrigerated container that has been rejected from a container ship. These chiller boxes usually hold chilled beef cartons or beef quarters that are shipped overseas.
When the chiller boxes become unservicable they are scrapped. The Industry buys the rejected chiller boxes and stores kangaroo bodies in them, sometimes for up to two weeks, sometimes longer if the pickup truck is broken down or delayed. These boxes are on remote properties, or often hidden in trees, where noone can see them, or what goes in them. Many chiller boxes also hold wild pigs, which are often covered in mud and faeces. The one below has a large hole in the door to allow rats and flies to enter. Obviously these chiller boxes are not rigorously inspected by any credible government authority.
Many of the kangaroo bodies are covered with fecal material and urine. Bio-tests show high levels of contamination including e.Coli. Like this!
and like this!
All of these kangaroo photoes were taken inside a kangaroo meat processing plant for human consumption! These kangaroos were not killed for petfood, they were killed for the Australian restaurant trade, and for export overseas for human consumption Trimmings, which include offal and bones, are crushed into a paste and sent overseas (usually to Russia) to make salami! Salamis are not usually cooked, they are smoked and cured by a process of fermentation.
So, do you still want to eat kangaroo meat? If you do, as this photo taken inside a kangaroo meat processing plant for human consumption shows, would you like some maggots with your kangaroo steak? Don't worry, they have been in a chiller box, so they are probably dead! They won't wriggle going down!
Of course the Industry claims carcases like this are downgraded....but downgraded to what? In reality though, would they just wash the maggots off before the carcase is cut up? Those who promote that we should cook and eat our kangaroos, recommend that the kangaroo steaks be served medium rare, so the flavor and tenderness is retained. Serving the steak topped with a strong sauce helps to hide the "rotten" taste. Don't worry, eat your kangaroo meat. If you are lucky, you won't get too sick!
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