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I wouldn't say there is a disinterest in kangaroos as food, it is a difficult thing to scale though - 8ft+ fences, on farm slaughtering/butchering because you can't really transport them alive

Maybe if we started selectively breeding them they would be farmable in a few hundred years?

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More that the hyper-efficient food supply chains of modern supermarkets demand rigourous reliability, which industrialised growing and slaughtering of cows, pigs and chickens can provide, but hunting kangaroos cannot.

I also suspect that when considering transportation costs, chicken farming is probably more energy efficient than industrialised kangaroo farming. If Australia had a more developed hunting community, it would provide a good protein source for rural/regional communities though - like deer and boar do in the USA.

Why not introduce Kangaroos into the wild in the USA or other landmasses, if they are ecologically efficient?

That's a dangerous game. Australia played it many times and paid the price. I don't think that they'd be so ecologically efficient in a different habitat.

A change in Australian culture to eat more kangaroo might help a lot.

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