animal rights, human rights, earth rights: a sensitive discourse
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Animal rights, human rights, Earth rights: a sensitive discourse
What role can the kangaroo industry play in land management? Reviewing the options and alternatives, ANU October 22, 2012
A/Prof Colin D ButlerNational Centre for Epidemiology and
Population Health
Main propositions
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1. Some suffering for self and others is inevitable, even if we are vegetarian; not all humans thrive without eating meat
(zinc and iron more important than protein?)
2. Consciousness, emotion evolved, not restricted to humans.
3. Eating meat involves harm to animals, whatever species.
4. Such harm can be modified; not necessarily restricted to killing: need to consider “life cycle analysis” of violence and harm, (including infectious disease potentiation).
Minimising harm from kangaroo meat supply
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licensed shooters
“head shot” control
minimising orphaned joeys
benefit: reduced starvation due to drought?
Conclusion
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If you eat meat, then eating kangaroo in Australia has
benefits for nutrition, environment and infectious
diseases. If done well in a regulated environment this also
involves less violence – in some cases far less – than
eating intensively farmed species, especially using a “life
cycle analysis” of violence and harm
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