Here’s your Food Quiz Question of the Day: What is the main reason some Australian scientists recommending that people shift from eating beef to eating kangaroo?
A. Farm raised kangaroos only require malt extract, rather than land-expensive feeds like lot-raised cattle.
B. Kangaroo depredations of Australian landscape are leading to near-Dust Bowl conditions, impacting the ecological balance of the continent.
C. Kangaroo farts have much less methane than cow farts, so this would reduce a dangerous greenhouse gas.
D. Kangaroos, being marsupials, are subject to neither Mad Cow Disease nor Hoof-and-Mouth Disease.
Results below the fold.
According to the BBC, the answer would be (C). Sheep and cattle currently account for 11% of Australia’s carbon footprint, largely due to their methane-rich burps and farts.
Though I kind of liked the “malt extract” answer.