Re: eating roo was Re: More 'scobie eggs for Diddy?

In article <43322956@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Ginny <glvl88ATyahooDOTcoDOTuk>
wrote:

> >
> > I think the 'roos there fill the same niche' as the deer here.
> > They look very similar in the face as well! :-)
> > I think they are pretty.
> >
>
> > When you have to destroy a kangaroo, do you eat it?
>
>
> They probably do. I have eaten 'roo but I don't
> from this area. Some of the local flora contains
> 1080 poison to which the native fauna are immune
> but I reckon it taints the meat because it tastes
> rank. Common in the higher rainfall areas; mostly
> absent from the drier regions where I have eaten
> 'roo and it is quite tender and tasty; very lean
> too. My husband and I used to have a licence to
> cull for the pet meat trade and we tended to live
> on what we shot if the cattle were lean. Camel and
> brumbies were fair game too although I don't like
> horse at all as the meat goes black and looks gross.
>
> So no, I don't eat local roo but the dogs end up
> well fed on the haunch and tail where most of the
> meat is. If its ill no-one gets it of course to be
> on the safe side.
>
> Ginny

That makes sense. :-)

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