EU Ban on Cruel Kangaroo Products Not in Sight Yet

16 March 2011

The petition calling for an import ban on kangaroo products to the European Union has been discussed by the European Parliament's Committee on Petitions. Unfortunately the Committee decided not to progress the petition further through the EU political system. Future campaign strategies to realise a EU import ban on kangaroo products are currently being developed.

We thank everyone who wrote to the Committee for their support for the millions of kangaroos that are killed by the Australian kangaroo industry every year.

If you want to help kangaroos in other ways, please consider the following options:

• Avoid kangaroo meat. There is no ethical or safe way to obtain kangaroo meat. Just last year Russia banned imports of the meat due to the unacceptably high level of bacterial accumulation in the carcasses. Try one of these delicious, eco-friendly dishes instead.
• Don't buy kangaroo leather. Even sporting great, David Beckham, refuses to wear soccer boots made from kangaroo leather, solely because of the cruelty of the hunt. There are many synthetic, cruelty-free alternatives to leather available.
• Pet food company Purina uses kangaroo meat in a number of its products. Please tell Purina that cruelty to animals is not a good ingredient for pet food.
• Share information on the cruel kangaroo hunt with your friends and family so they can become informed.
  
• Write a letter to the editor of your local paper. Australians, while outraged over the seal hunts, are largely unaware of what is happening to joeys in our own backyard.
  

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See also:Pet food company Purina implicated in kangaroo crueltyAsk Peru to Save our Roos!Kangaroos again the losers in CanberraOpinion: It’s raining kangaroos: the ups and downs of kangaroo managementCouncil considers roo harvesting trial

The slaughter of kangaroos is the largest land-based commercial wildlife massacre in the world. It's also arguably the cruellest, with some 400,000 orphaned joeys bludgeoned to death each year. Find out more...