A Recipe To Fight Global Climate Change
Or rather two recipes. Camel burgers and kangaroo kabobs. No, really. The Australian government – or at least their “chief climate change adviser” is advocating the eating of kangaroos. Not to be outdone, another group is now planning camel barbecues.
Australians were urged Tuesday to eat camels to stop them wreaking environmental havoc, just months after being told to save the world from climate change by consuming kangaroos.
A three-year study has found that Australia’s population of more than a million feral camels — the largest wild herd on earth — is out of control and damaging fragile desert ecosystems and water sources.
The Desert Knowledge Cooperative Research Centre, which produced the report, plans to serve camel meat at a barbecue for senior public servants in Canberra on Wednesday to press its point.
Report co-author Professor Murray McGregor said a good way to bring down the number of camels was to eat them.
“Eat a camel today, I’ve done it,” he told the national AAP news agency.
Apparently, Professor McGregor is a very large man to have eaten a camel today. One wonders at his native carbon footprint, so to speak.
One wonders why nobody is experimenting with cane toad appetizers amongst these advocates. We’d encourage them, but someone would take it the wrong way.
By Sam, December 10, 2008 @ 12:33 pm
I can’t comment on the situation in Australia, but around here the Canada geese could sure use some thinning. Almost every park and golf course has a permanent herd of them hanging around. And goose sounds a lot more appetizing than camel or kangaroo.
I was watching something on TV last night about adopting wild horses, and dogs at the shelter, but I won’t go there . . .