Despite loud protests from defenders of wild animals, the Australian Government has raised this year's quota for shooting kangaroos, setting it at 6.9 million animals. Australian meat industry and the kangaroo leather is thriving, earning more recently for 128 million dollars a year.
Australia has always been a difficult relationship with his marsupial sanctuary. Kangaroo, along with ostrich Amy strut on the arms of the country, whole generations of children have grown up in 1960 and 1970 on the television series about "Skippy" such as Russia's friend spectator series "Lassie." Sami themselves Australians call "wallabies", as well as not very large kangaroo (both New Zealanders call themselves "kiwi").
But the farmers consider them pests, and complain that they eat the sheep and grass crops. And drivers in rural areas are forced to stay with the sunset to dawn on the roadside, so as not to face the swift symbols of the state.
The most amazing thing is that in the last decade, Australians began to consume the meat of marsupials for food after the Australian states in the early 1990's, one after another abolished the appropriate ban. But the mass sale of kangaroo meat in supermarkets has still not: many Australians warps the idea to eat a steak "Skippy" (just try to imagine an American restaurant, orders a "Lassie" with blood or well-done!) But-known chefs extol the low-fat kenguroo meat with the aroma of this game. They come even talk about breeding these animals for meat farms.
Meanwhile, the first European settlers perceived the kangaroo in the first place as the game, as the main source of meat. The government hired a hunter settlements obliged exiled to Australia criminals shoot a kangaroo, to provide the population with food. Farmers ejected them as competitors of their sheep. Flourished even sport hunting of kangaroos like the British foxhunting.
The defenders of wildlife do not doubt, but fierce objections. In Britain, they have a ban on the sale kenguroo meat in supermarkets and are fighting for a ban on clothing and shoes from kangaroo skin (especially popular sports shoes).
"It is a cruel, disgusting industry - is outraged Maryland Wilson, one of the most stubborn defenders kangaroos in Australia. Kangaroo - a sacred animal. It is a symbol of Australia. But it is a symbol, stained with blood.
Because of the constant attacks kangaroo industry is trying not to attract attention and constantly stresses that shooting is humane methods. The animals were allowed to kill only a shot in the head. As a result, only the professional hunters, who have a special license, can lead shooting. But the battle around him did not subside.
Australia has always been a difficult relationship with his marsupial sanctuary. Kangaroo, along with ostrich Amy strut on the arms of the country, whole generations of children have grown up in 1960 and 1970 on the television series about "Skippy" such as Russia's friend spectator series "Lassie." Sami themselves Australians call "wallabies", as well as not very large kangaroo (both New Zealanders call themselves "kiwi").
But the farmers consider them pests, and complain that they eat the sheep and grass crops. And drivers in rural areas are forced to stay with the sunset to dawn on the roadside, so as not to face the swift symbols of the state.
The most amazing thing is that in the last decade, Australians began to consume the meat of marsupials for food after the Australian states in the early 1990's, one after another abolished the appropriate ban. But the mass sale of kangaroo meat in supermarkets has still not: many Australians warps the idea to eat a steak "Skippy" (just try to imagine an American restaurant, orders a "Lassie" with blood or well-done!) But-known chefs extol the low-fat kenguroo meat with the aroma of this game. They come even talk about breeding these animals for meat farms.
Meanwhile, the first European settlers perceived the kangaroo in the first place as the game, as the main source of meat. The government hired a hunter settlements obliged exiled to Australia criminals shoot a kangaroo, to provide the population with food. Farmers ejected them as competitors of their sheep. Flourished even sport hunting of kangaroos like the British foxhunting.
The defenders of wildlife do not doubt, but fierce objections. In Britain, they have a ban on the sale kenguroo meat in supermarkets and are fighting for a ban on clothing and shoes from kangaroo skin (especially popular sports shoes).
"It is a cruel, disgusting industry - is outraged Maryland Wilson, one of the most stubborn defenders kangaroos in Australia. Kangaroo - a sacred animal. It is a symbol of Australia. But it is a symbol, stained with blood.
Because of the constant attacks kangaroo industry is trying not to attract attention and constantly stresses that shooting is humane methods. The animals were allowed to kill only a shot in the head. As a result, only the professional hunters, who have a special license, can lead shooting. But the battle around him did not subside.
