Now, don’t go jumping to conclusions.
Well, I did read once that the name of Welsh rabbit (not “rarebit”) was originally a snide English ethnic joke on the Welsh, who were presumed to be too feckless even to do something as easy as catching a rabbit.
However, Wiki sez:
And in any case, from what I’ve read in this thread and elsewhere, the pestiferous bunnies are so abundant in Oz that you might live a very long time on rabbit-roadkill alone, if you make sure to scrape it up the same day it displayed poor timing.
Leapt right over me 'ead, that 'un. :o
I was trying to look up estimates of the rabbit population last night. Best guess seems to be around 200 million, down from a peak of 600 million in the 50s, prior to Myxomatosis.
I truly think the danger is overstated. Lamb, Pork and Venison is as likely as Roo to carry toxoplasmosis, yet you don’t see any true Australian (I kid) refusing to eat Lamb because of it.
Really? That surprises me. Rabbits are freaken everywhere, rare in the tropics though.
Bloody good mate, just cook it properly. Kanga mince is pretty popular at my place for low fat burgers.
It surprises me, too, but I don’t get out of Brisbane much. The BCC does have rabbit policies, so, yeah, obviously there’s still a rabbit problem.
Agree with you on kangaroo. A rare steak is quite good. Reminded me of venison.
That’s definitely the go. You can sneak roo mince, in any recipe, past most people and only get raves about how good it is. If you use it to make a spag bol, lasagne or moussaka people ask, “Did you use part pork mince.. (or some other variant)?”
My kids used to love it although I’m sure they never knew what it was. Not many kids can be bothered finding out which meat was minced in a particular recipe.
I would agree with that. I’ve lived in Brisbane for >20 years, and I can’t remember ever seeing a wild rabbit in Brisbane proper.
I did however hit one near Gympie a couple of years ago, the stupid bugger ran out onto the highway right in front of my car, giving me no chance to stop or swerve.
:rolleyes:
If you eat Kangaroo meat as it is “Game Meat” it is full of parasites and several horrific diseases like Toxoplasma & e-coli. Even meat for human consumption hangs in chiller boxes out in the desert for at least 2 weeks with blood, maggots ect that stays in the chillers for years.
As well as they way the Roos are killed is the world’s largest & cruelest MURDER of any animal.
So there is two reason NOT to eat Kangaroo meat:
- Your health
- You refuse to support cruelty to animals.:(
Livestock is slaughtered in a ‘clean’ control environment. Roos are killed in dirt, hung in unhygienic Chiller boxes for approx 2 weeks before the carcasses are then transported to an abattoir. The carcasses are hung by their feet and faecal matter runs down the meat. Most of the time the chiller boxes are not air tight so blow flies lay eggs on the Roo carcasses. All of this is hosed off at the abattoirs so health Inspectors don’t see it. But there is plenty of photo/video documentation of it.
There is no overstating the risk of eating Roo Meat. So people will eat until it personally effect them or a loved one.
It can blind people, cause pregnant women to lose their babies or children can be born deformed because the meat contains harmful bacteria.
National Institutes of Health
Some wild animals, such as Australian native marsupials, have evolved in the absence of T. gondii until cats were introduced to their environment only a few hundred years ago. As a consequence, these animals are highly susceptible to the parasite. Although seroprevalences of T. gondii infection in marsupials are usually lower than in mammals, kangaroo meat in particular has recently been recognised as a potential source of infection for humans, because it is very lean with little fat and, thus, is usually consumed rare or undercooked [126].
*****126. Johnson AM. Australian native marsupials as vectors of toxoplasmosis. New Goals for the 21st Century. Abstracts of the XIV th International Congress for Tropical Medicine and Malaria; Nagasaki, Japan. November 17–22, 1996; p. 132.
If you serve it to anyone you had better hope
- that no one is pregnant
- That no one contracts anything from the Roo Meat.
You will end up broke when the sue you.
Hope you had enough morals to stop to make sure it was dead and that there wasn’t an alive joey. Instead of letting one or both suffer cruelly until they died.
:dubious: As midnight-dreary noted, livestock such as lamb and pork are no “cleaner” than kangaroo when it comes to infection of the meat with microorganisms like toxoplasmosis or E. coli. Livestock meat gets contaminated with fecal matter in so-called “clean” abattoirs all the time.
Rabbits have joeys? (You do realize it was a rabbit that GreedySmurf accidentally hit, right?)
Details! Details!
So, the ones still surviving are probably tough enough to fight back.
Run away! :eek:
It’s the real reason why we had to ban guns. Had they fallen into lapine paws, we would be lost. The most terrifying words you can hear in an Australian accent are “I think I see a bunny”.
Ah reckon we’ve gottus a live-un with KoalaMumma folks.
D’ya reckon we should shoot her now, or let her wriggle a bit longer? 
Dunno, maybe we should feed her to the drop-bears. They chew real slow on live prey …
Actually, I just want to point out that you have to let game (actually, any meat) hang for days if you are not in an abattoir with electrical stimulators. This allows rigor mortis to occur and then pass. If you don’t, when you freeze the meat you lock in the rigor (cold shortening) and the meat is tough as old boots. I had to explain this to a missionary who worked in Pakistan - he would go to the butcher on slaughter day, buy his meat, get it home and frozen as fast as possible (for hygiene reasons). All their meat was tough, and they blamed the source animals.
Oh, and I have eaten Skippy, and he was delicious.
Hey Kam, I think I see a bunny.