February 2025
There is a slur on Australia at times with being told that Australia is the only country which eats the animals on its court of arms or flag – the kangaroo and the emu. It’s not true. At least it’s not true that only Australia eats it’s national symbolic animal. But it is true that we eat kangaroo (and occasionally emu). Not all of us, some Australians don’t eat kangaroo because they can’t see it as meat, have tried it and not liked it, or are vegetarian or vegan. This article is however concerned with non-Indigenous Australians who did/do eat kangaroo.
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