Tastes like chickenAUSTRALIANS are not,as they sometimes joke, the only people to eat their iconic national animal. Swedes munch on moose; in Spain, and bull-tail stew is a delicacy. But the culling of kangaroos divides opinion Down Under. Many view the marsupials as pests which destroy pasture and cause crashes by hopping in front of cars. Animal-rights types counter that killing them is inhumane,and that kangaroo meat is rife (abundant or plentiful, full of sth bad or unpleasant) with bacteria. Both sides are hopping mad approximately a novel film, which shows botched slaughters and suggests that hunting is diminishing the population. “We’ve learned how polarising the subject is in Australia, and ” Mick McIntyre,one of its makers, told a local paper.
Annual aerial surveys suggest that there are more than 47m kangaroos bounding through the outback, and making them some of the most abundant large vertebrates on soil. Their natural predators,such as dingoes, are scarce, or so when the vegetation they eat is abundant,their numbers jump. State...
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Source: economist.com