FW: [alqld] LIBERATE: Kangaroo industry exploiting European fears

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>An email to rs of the Animal Liberation NSW mailing list

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>KANGAROO INDUSTRY EXPLOITING MAD COW, AND FOOT AND MOUTH FEAR

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>FIGHT FOR THE KANGAROO GOES GLOBAL

>BILLBOARDS IN EUROPE TO WARN OF HEALTH HAZARDS

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> " Warnings of health hazards from eating kangaroo meat are to be placed on

billboards in central city locations in London, Berlin and other European

capitals, " said Halina Thompson, wildlife representative of the World

League for Protection of Animals today.

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> " In its commercially driven agenda, the kangaroo industry sees fear of mad

cow and foot and mouth disease as a commercial opportunity.

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> " In fear of disease that may be contracted from eating cattle, European

diners may be eager to turn to kangaroo steaks. But the promotion of

kangaroo meat as the healthy alternative ignores instances where kangaroo

meat has been identified as the most likely cause of cases of severe

illness, and in one case, blindness.

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> " As long ago as 1996, Victorian veterinarians condemned the killing of

kangaroos for human consumption, saying the meat is unhygienic and

unacceptable. (Sunday Herald Sun 6/10/96). These concerns have been echoed

by other specialists in veterinary disease.

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> " The kangaroo industry also promotes kangaroo meat as the environmentally

friendly alternative to sheep and cattle. It has been supported in recent

months by a grant from the Federal Government of $120,000 specifically for

promotion and to answer criticisms.

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> " This Government support for the kangaroo industry position is

astonishing. To produce the 1,700,000 tonnes of meat produced annually by

cattle alone, the industry would have to kill the entire kangaroo

population of Australia about 566 times each year. Kangaroos are not large

animals, are slow to grow and have little meat on their bones.

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> " If the kangaroo meat industry took off in a big way, it would soon eat

itself out of existence.

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> " We must wonder why the Federal Government is promoting an industry which

earns a small fraction of the dollars earned by the tourism industry.

Rather than promoting the killing of kangaroos, whose flesh brings in just

$1.50 a kilo, it should be promoting a world-class wildlife experience

through eco-tourism. Has it considered that tourists would flock to

Australia to see large numbers of free-ranging kangaroos in the wild and -

and in doing so, make a real contribution to Australia's wealth?

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> " Is promoting one small industry more important than saving Australia's

national symbol?

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> " Tonight and every night of the year, four wheel drives continue to criss

cross the fragile soil of rangelands seeking the kill. Tonight and every

night, 15,000 kangaroos will be shot. At least 15% will die slowly of

wounds. Joeys will be torn from the pouch and clubbed to death - or die

slowly of starvation.

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> " The escalating shooting of Australia's symbol for the skin and meat trade

means that the preferred kill - the biggest and genetically strongest

kangaroos - are dwindling in numbers. This may mean that the only Big Red

kangaroo we'll be seeing soon will be on the tail of a Qantas jet. "

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>A " Save the Kangaroo " rally

>will be held on

>Saturday 31 March

>at Circular Quay (George St end)

>at 12 noon.

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>Halina Thompson 0407 456 683

>Katherine Rogers 0419 208 132

>Joan Papayanni (02) 9817 3455

>Maryland Wilson (03) 5978 8570

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>World League for Protection of Animals. Kangaroo Protection Cooperative.

Australians Against the Commercialisation of Wildlife. The Australian

Wildlife Protection Council

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