Kill a Roo save the Ozone!

Ahh I crack myself up...

I can finally find something that I am in total 100% agreement with on Greenpeace! As cool as those dingys looked that they played chicken with tankers with and all, this one takes the cake.

They are advising the Government of Australia (Land of Crocodile Dundee, Steve Irwin and Mel Gibson), to lift restrictions on the hunting of Kangaroos for meat!

It also coincides with recent calls from climate change experts for people in rich countries to reduce red meat and switch to chicken and fish because land-clearing and burping and farting cattle and sheep were damaging the environment.

They said nearly a quarter of the planet's greenhouse gases came from agriculture, which releases the potent heat-trapping gas methane.

This makes sense on so many levels to me though... They have a great argument about how damaging agriculture is on massive scales throughout the world, so why not lower the need to mass-produce red-meat when you have a free-ranging animal that is being killed anyway constantly by farmers or poachers and being left to rot because of the restriction on harvesting?

I'm totally in favor of being able to try new meat, hopefully for cheap :). Having fallen in love with Gator sausage/steak/whatever while down in New Orleans the 300 times I seemed to have gone this year, I can only imagine that free-ranging, or more "wild" animals will have great meat for the masses... Plus, if we can do away with a part of something that even Greenpeace thinks is a problem while retaining the ability to eat meat, why not? :)

PS: New Orleans is really a place everyone should go see as soon as possible... There really is no telling when that town will be wiped off the face of the earth, so you better hurry!