The meat from Macro Meats comes from a quota to hunt, not a cull. Culls tend to happen on too large a scale to collect the meat from and get it butchered (maybe cull meat is what they use for the roo mince that's just for pets). My local butcher used to stock it but there wasn't enough demand, so he stopped So, it's the Macro Meats from Maxi's for us!
I am not against either quota hunting or culling. Our mismanagement of the land has led to overpopulation, as Kaz said, and as much as it's not fair on the roos, it means they then live in mobs that are of man-made proportions competing for less food resources. Culls are kinder than trapping and poisoning, and mean roos don't have to live in a roo-version of a slum. It's not too OT, it's part of my decision-making process in meat buying, so it's relevant to the thread It also means the roos live as roos whilst they are alive, and not as economic units on a farm destined for one fate, fattened up beyond their biological needs, and separated early from their mothers. I'm not a vego - I'd rather have meat from animals that lived as animals, that's all. I'd eat horse if it were available in Oz anywhere other than Darwin (has to be killed close to export location, which is up there - there's more taboo over horse flesh consumption than roo meat consumption!). We overproduce thoroughbreds purely for profit and the vast majority that don't make it on the track (and even those with a couple of wins) end up as dog food and other commodities (when they're kindly put down, instead of left to wither or be mistreated by horse traders etc before being eventually sold to market anyway), when some of it could be diverted for food, as it is in France, Belgium and other less-taboo-hindered cultures. And I LOVE horses!
ETA: My take on 'man-made' overpopulation comes from salinisation of land and pushing roos into smaller spaces, where they used to roam further to forage, not so much from giving them pasture land. Salinisation and using land that keeps roos out for whatever reason. Anyway, a quota-kill IS still different from culling, but either way, they got to live life as roos
Last edited by Smoke Jaguar; June 28th, 2009 at 11:42 PM.
So, it's the Macro Meats from Maxi's for us!
It also means the roos live as roos whilst they are alive, and not as economic units on a farm destined for one fate, fattened up beyond their biological needs, and separated early from their mothers. I'm not a vego - I'd rather have meat from animals that lived as animals, that's all. I'd eat horse if it were available in Oz anywhere other than Darwin (has to be killed close to export location, which is up there - there's more taboo over horse flesh consumption than roo meat consumption!). We overproduce thoroughbreds purely for profit and the vast majority that don't make it on the track (and even those with a couple of wins) end up as dog food and other commodities (when they're kindly put down, instead of left to wither or be mistreated by horse traders etc before being eventually sold to market anyway), when some of it could be diverted for food, as it is in France, Belgium and other less-taboo-hindered cultures. And I LOVE horses!
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