‘The largest slaughter of wild land animals in the world’
One of the world’s largest importers of kangaroo meat is planning to officially ban the trade and sale of kangaroo meat, according to Irish farm news outlet agricultural region.
Belgium is the second largest importer of kangaroo meat, while the European Union ranks first.
However, the sale and trade of kangaroo meat has become a tense issue in recent years. In October 2021, Brussels Times He discussed an Australian report by the New South Wales parliament detailing brutal practices during exports.
Concerns raised in the report included the Australian government’s failure to properly monitor whether kangaroo hunting was being carried out humanely and a lack of data on the number of orphan kangaroos (baby kangaroos) euthanized as part of legal culls.
At the time, Eurogroup for Animals CEO Reineke Hameleers was emphasized by the Times that “there is no monitoring mechanism to ensure that animals are killed in the least harmful way.” Belgium’s big supermarkets like Aldi and Lidl in 2020 stopped selling kangaroo meat.
Prohibitions on various aspects of hunting, fishing, and wildlife trade bush meatProducts sourced from wild animals; It serves many important purposes in terms of conservation, biodiversity and public health.
Exotic game meats in particular can serve as a vector. zoonotic pathogens jumps from wildlife populations to humans.
Although Australia has long struggled to control its large kangaroo population, animal welfare concerns still persisted in Flanders.
The Belgian government has officially notified the European Parliament that it plans to ban the sale of kangaroo meat by July; This is a necessary first step towards a policy change that could impact trade in the region more broadly.
“The commercial hunting of kangaroos in Australia is the largest massacre of wild land animals in the world,” part of the Flemish government’s announcement, according to Agriland.
“Between 1.1 million and 1.3 million kangaroos are killed each year in an animal-unfriendly manner for the purpose of selling various materials on the global market,” he continued. “Flanders contributes disproportionately to animal suffering in Australia.”
According to Agriland, although the sale of kangaroo meat has been stopped in chain supermarkets in Belgium, it continues to be sold in pet foods and butchers.
In the announcement of the Belgian government, it was stated that the ban will prohibit the import of kangaroo skins used in the production of “sneakers and motorcycle jackets” as well as kangaroo meat.
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