Yeah, bees are controversial, but let’s talk about the vegans who actually eat meat

Aboriginal Australians have been hunting kangaroos for 60,000 years, and the kangaroos have adapted. Modern kangaroos tend to overpopulate and overgraze, destroying grasslands that are used as crucial habitats for threatened indigenous species. Kangaroos need to be culled to protect the environment.

All kangaroo meat comes from wild kangaroos. Hunting quotas are managed by the government based on aerial population surveys. When hunting quotas aren’t met, the remaining kangaroos have to be culled, and their meat rots in ditches and mass graves instead of being eaten.

Come on vegans, let’s get toxic. I wanna see some pro-kangatarian vegans being called murderers over this.

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    I am a vegan, well for now maybe it changes maybe it doesn’t since I believe everything should be looked at as rationally as one is able to, but I still see hunting wild animals in certain situations being ethical. Where I am from, South Africa, hunting has basically supported environments that are kept as natural as possible, so the wild life has to be sustainable , and it supports all the other animals that also live on the farm that cannot be hunted. There are bad, really bad situations where this was not the case, cage lion hunting being an awful example. But yeah the animal really does live its life in its natural environment, and when hunted usually killed in a quick manner, usually not always, similar as if it was hunted by lions or crocodiles.

    It is a difficult point, since I do not ever want to hunt, but I see the benefits of hunting. I know there might be obvious shortcomings in my view, but OP, with this one you have my semi vote of approval. But with all things we should make rational ethical decisions where it does not lead to suffering or exploitation of the beings involved. Maybe Australia can support a bigger number of kangaroos than what the government says, remember they are not always to be trusted. But maybe the natural predators of kangaroos have been eradicated and now human culling needs to put pressure to keep sustainable populations. I cannot give you the answers but hopefully a conversation can begin. I tried to be open as you asked OP

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      8 hours ago

      The natural predators of kangaroos are parasites, and indigenous humans. Indigenous humans haven’t been eradicated, but colonisation and capitalism have harmed their ability to engage in traditional practices that maintain the land.

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        Don’t you guys have Steve Irwin’s crocodiles. Where they not the natural predators of kangaroos, I assume most of them have been removed from most rivers to more natural protected areas?

        Or like the Tasmanian Tiger, even though they look a bit small, but if there were packs of them, or dingoes. Look I believe humans have disrupted the natural forces keeping Australia’s fauna and flora in equilibrium, just like almost everywhere else. I think you also have an alien toad that is also wrecking havoc on your ecosystem, where I am really in favour of ethical thought out method of eliminating invasive alien species.

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      15 hours ago

      You mean pull a Jurassic Park and de-extinct the marsupial lion, not introduce yet another invasive species, right?

      …right?

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          That existed much more recently, but they were a lot smaller than marsupial lions. According to Wikipedia, the kind of prey they went after pretty much maxed out at the Red-necked Wallaby (13-19 kg), whereas the kangaroos we’re trying to control can weigh up to 90 kg.

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            My thinking was more, that the Tasmanian Tiger, although (very probably) extinct, it would be the kangaroo hunter, they would need

            So, was more like a “fuck you guys for killing it, because it would have solved your current problem”, than a real direct answer to your comment
            Sorry for maybe displacing my answer

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    Только сегодня вспоминали как мы ели кенгурятину, и она довольно специфична, не похожа на другое мясо В девяностые и начале двухтысячных ее много поставляли в Россию