Good morning my Healthy friends…. Today I had Kangaroo on the menu and first of all I went like WTF?!? But then I googled where the !@#$ I can get this in the Netherlands and I found instead 10 awesome reasons to eat kangaroo and knew why this was on the menu for today and off course Im sharing this so here goes: 1. It tastes great! it’s not too gamey, rich and delicious. Use it in place of beef. 2. It’s REALLY lean. Less than 2% fat and has less kilojoules than lamb or beef. The fat in it is low in saturated fats and contains Conjugated Linoleic Acid – an antioxidant. 3. It’s high in iron and zinc 4. It’s high in protein – about the same as beef 5. They emit just 0.003 tonnes of greenhouse gases per animal per year, compared to 1.67 tonnes per cow per year. This is incredible – since some estimate that 18% of greenhouse gasses are caused by livestock. Read more here and here 6. Kangaroos eat less than sheep or cattle 7. They are less damaging to the top soil as their feet have pads (like dogs and cats) not hooves like sheep and cattle. 8. Kangaroos are wild, not farmed. We have so many kangaroos in Australia and the population boom is caused by humans. In some areas of the country there are way too many kangaroos because we have put infrastructure in place for other animals (sheep and cattle) to use, like feed and watering holes. They naturally flourish because of this. We caused the Kangaroo glut, and now we’re fixing it. To keep the population in check, the Australian government allows a cull of 10-15% of the kangaroo population each year. Of the 48 species of kangaroo only 5 of the most common kangaroos are for commercial use, these populations are common and not endangered. The wild kangaroos go through a 12 step checking process before they are allowed onto the consumers plates. 9. By having the kangaroos happily roam wild in their own natural habitat there is no need for costly infrastructure of fencing and feed etc. They are PERFECTLY adapted to their environment! The animal is killed quickly with a single bullet in its own environment. To me, this sounds less stressful for the animal than going to an abatoir. 10. It’s cheap – it floats around $16 a kilo for a nice steak. Beef can sometimes be twice that much. I hope you like reading ;-) DIOD™
Posted on: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 08:39:18 +0000
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