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An Australian scientist is urging his countrymen to farm kangaroos for their meat instead of cattle to reduce Australia's greenhouse gas emissions.
Sheep and cattle account for an estimated 11 percent of Australia's greenhouse gas emissions through the methane they produce through belching and flatulence.
However kangaroos produce virtually no methane because their digestive systems are different, with a different set of micro-organisms in their guts to cows and sheep.
Because of this, Dr George Wilson, of the Australian Wildlife Services, has urged a switch to kangaroo farming.
He says kangaroo meat tastes "excellent, not unlike venison - only a different flavour".
Some 30 million kangaroos are already being farmed by landholders in the Australian outback, but Dr Wilson would like that figure increased so the same amount of kangaroo meat is produced as that currently derived from conventional livestock.
(c) NewsRoom 2008
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