Are Kangaroo's tasty?

[Tigermoose]

Methane burped out of cows and other animals accounts for "28 percent of man-made methane emissions annually."

"Serving steak to your family is the greenhouse-gas equivalent of driving 155 miles."

http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0816/p13s01-sten.html "> How Better Fed Cows Could Save the Planet

Kangaroos apparently have different bacteria that digest their food, and thus they do not produce the methane. So maybe we should begin eating Kangaroos rather than Cows? Or maybe I should just start passing on ordering the steak.

[phantom power]

1. reducing meat is generally good climate policy, for a variety of reasons.

Not that I do. In fact I'm utterly damned, by almost any environmental standard.

But I'm sure it's not too late for you.

[Whoa_Nelly]

2. Pass on the steak, and save a kangaroo today! n/t

[MADem]

3. Well, cloning, food additives and a sorta cow BEANO are all on the menu...

Furthermore, controlled feeding is not possible everywhere – especially not in Canada, Brazil, Australia, Argentina, and India, where huge herds of animals roam free on huge grazing lands. To reduce their burping, Prof. Winfried Drochner of the Institute of Animal Nutrition at the German University of Hohenheim proposes administering a bun-size pill filled with methane-reducing substances that would dissolve in a cow's gut over a period of months.

It would be a bitter pill for cows to swallow. But at least it wouldn't give them bad breath, as another proposal might do. Prof. Jamie Newbold, at the Institute of Rural Sciences at the University of Wales, is experimenting with a feed laced with garlic. Initial results show that the extract reduces the amount of gas produced by up to 50 percent, as the garlic directly attacks the methane-producing organisms in the cow's digestive tract. But the garlic cure could not only cause halitosis, but also odd-tasting milk and meat. Kreuzer notes that in Switzerland there's a law against feeding dairy cows garlic and onions.

Kangaroos may hold the key

One strategy that Australian scientists have embarked upon suggests not only changing the cattle's diet, but also part of their intestinal tract by making them more like a kangaroo.

Australia's heraldic animals don't emit methane from fermentation. The microbes in their stomachs – while performing functions similar to those in the digestive tracts of cows – are markedly different. A kangaroo's digestive microbes produce acetate (C2H3O2), which aids digestion.

Athol Klieve and his team from the Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries in Queensland isolated 211 bacteria from the eastern gray kangaroo's gut and screened them to determine which are best at digesting native pasture. The most promising ones could be grown in a laboratory and introduced into cattle. ...

[Mythsaje]

4. Dunno--never eaten a kangaroo

My system can barely stand steak anymore, unless I want to be plugged up for days.

[rurallib]

5. I had heard loooong ago that some dog foods were made of

'roos. But the meat was not specified on the label. Know not if it is true.

[parkia00]

6. It does not taste like chicken!

It's very lean and somewhat chewy if you use it as a steak. The color is very red and does have a unique taste that I can't really describe. However it's certainly edible. Think of it as a low end cut of beef and for some reason it readily available in Australia.