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Not an everyday meat, the beef steak or lamb chop are still the norm -But Kangaroo is often seen for sale at food stores and served in restaurants.

The current debate is that:

• Like many wildlife, Kangaroos are threatened by the changes in climate (rainfall &temperature shifts) and numbers will reduce (human population growth reduces their territory every year).
• Australia’s chief adviser on climate change has been noted to say that Australians should switch from eating lamb and beef to kangaroo because the marsupials give off much less methane than domestic livestock, making it better for the environment.
• The ‘Cute Skippy factor’? The reason many Aussies have traditionally been reluctant to tuck into kangaroo meat.
• Australians are uneasy about eating meat from the animal, which appears on the country’s coat of arms.

Official government figures show that over the past 20 years the number of kangaroos living wild in Australia has fluctuated between 15 and 50 million, depending on droughts and culls.