Kangaroo Conundrums
by John Kelly
Development Manager of the Kangaroo Industry Association of Australia
www.kangaroo-industry.asn.au
IF POLITICS IS A DIRTY GAME, then environmental politics must be about the filthiest area of endeavor there is. For where else can one find so many people posturing as caring, responsible citizens, but with so little regard for principles or rational debate?
The people I refer to could be described as radical, unprincipled, vegetarian, wildlife activists. But let us dispense with that mouthful, and call them instead Vegetarians International
Voice for Animals.
Vegetarians International is a UK-based outfit that could teach a Mafia Don a thing or two about lying with a straight face. "Why you kill zees animal?" you can almost hear them
say. "It is zee last one, and besides, eet poison you and eet very smart lika Einstein." All of which makes being on the wrong end of a Vegetarians International campaign a galling
experience, as Australia's kangaroo industry has been finding out.
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When Vegetarians International declared war on the roo industry, all but one UK newspaper had the sense to look away. Only the raunchy tabloid News of the World ran the story, saying much about the credibility of both.
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