Would you eat dugong???

[Thomas B]

There are a great number of animals that I would eat only if they were farmed so that I knew that eating them had no effect on the species welfare. One of these is dugong. In fact, I'd dislike eating wombat or even kangaroo if I knew it had been killed in the wild solely for human consumption, not by farmers who would cull them anyway.

[eataust]

I'd eat roo under any circumstances ... I keep thinking to put six foot fencing around one of my local mobs and start "farming" them (the difference between "farming" and "culling" would be pretty nominal, however, I have to say). I don't have a problem with eating wild roo that's been killed for human consumption, as long as I know it's part of a sustainably-managed wild population (and roos aren't currently in danger of being over-killed for human consumption ... ).

"Sustainably-managed" is the key, really. Other than that, if it's edible, I'll eat it ... (at least once!!).

[roughbarked]

Six foot fence .. ain't enough.
They can hit a 12 foot fence with their chest three parts of the way up.

Thinking about that again.. This would be a way of allowing them to hang themselves feet first on the fence so that you had an easy butchershop.

[eataust]

These aren't reds - they're Eastern Greys. I _could_ go to 12ft, as is apparently required for deer, but that's not as easy to put up.

Mind you, this is a plan for _very_ far in the future. My Bloke says if he has to put up more 6ft fencing just to keep the chooks in (and the roos and foxes out) this year, he might move back to the city :)

The logistics of farming roo require a fair amount of thought, too. So I just keep the concept in the back of my mind until attitudes change enough that i don't need a license just to kill my own roo ...

... and in the meantime, kill and eat my own chooks and pigs and whatever else ...