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SYDNEY - Some Australians are up in arms over a new kangaroo and emu flavored chip, horrified that people are encouraged to eat the nation's coat of arms which depicts the iconic Australian animals.
Complaints to Australia's Advertising Standards Bureau said the "BBQ Coat of Arms" chips were degrading for native wildlife and sent the wrong message to Australian children, reported the Sydney Morning Herald newspaper.
As if they encourage indiscriminate killing of these creatures.
And what's wrong with eating them.
In fact, a bit of game meat is good for us, and should be encouraged.
They don't belch and produce methane like cattle do - one of the greenhouse carbon gases - if you believe in it.
I don't see in any way how this promotes "killing for fun." Killing for food, maybe.
I hear roo is supposed to be good meat, and probably emu too. (never had poultry I didn't like )
They are also supposed to be more environmentally-friendly to raise than European livestock.
(bushflies encouraged by European livestock?)
I don't see in any way how this promotes "killing for fun."
Complaints to the advertising bureau seem to sometimes attract the biggest flakes around. Hyper-sensitive busybodies offended by just about everything.
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Originally Posted by ColdCanadian
I hear roo is supposed to be good meat, and probably emu too. (never had poultry I didn't like )
They are also supposed to be more environmentally-friendly to raise than European livestock.
(bushflies encouraged by European livestock?)
Yes, good tucker! And environmentally friendly too and yeah, the bushflies thing must be due to European livestock. Was recently in Africa where there's huge piles of various types of poo lying around but hardly any flies.
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I had no idea they were roo and emu flavoured.
As long as they don't over-hunt them I don't think it's a problem. I've had roo and it's quite a good meat. I have a great respect for our wildlife, and am a conservationist, but as far as roos go they are breeding like rabbits in some areas. There should be tight controls though, God forbid they go the way of the American bison.
After all if the original Australians ate them I don't see why we should be any different.
They should bring out camel flavoured chips too, although I'm sure there'd be outrage over that too. Just like the outrage at the culling of these feral beasts. The complainers, it seems, would rather camels stomp on everything in sight, perhaps even over children.
They should bring out camel flavoured chips too, although I'm sure there'd be outrage over that too.
Just like the outrage at the culling of these feral beasts. The complainers, it seems, would rather camels stomp on everything in sight, perhaps even over children.
I'd like to try camel too.
I think the people who are against culling any feral beasts should adopt them as pets,
and keep them in their personal yards or homes, thus saving the bush from distruction
and keeping the "aliens" alive and happy as they hoped.
I think the people who are against culling any feral beasts should adopt them as pets,
and keep them in their personal yards or homes, thus saving the bush from distruction
and keeping the "aliens" alive and happy as they hoped.
Good idea. And you wouldn't want to break up a herd of them either, so they should adopt the entire herd.
They had a news story the other day about a small town in the NT, basically under seige from a huge herd of feral camels. The news showed these things just trample and crush everything underfoot - water pipes, fences, everything. People couldn't leave their houses. Parents were afraid for their children so they kept them in. The camels are thirsty - bad place to be thirsty, in the Outback - so they rampage around looking for water. Even crashing through houses. The ones that die of thirst, rot on the ground. Only humane thing to do is kill them. But some people in Britain want to boycott this "Third World" country for doing that. So maybe we should ship them over to them.
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Killing for food, maybe. 
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