Is the debate regarding the kangaroo meat meals at the Sun Inn related to vegetarian versus carnivore or does someone have a real concern over the plight of this native Australian animal?

If the concern is vegetarian versus carnivore, then why aren't all meat meals being addressed by the complainants?

Surely one animal doesn't suffer any more or less in an abattoir or in a hunt? So why single out just the kangaroo? Read the menu in the picture. There are fish, lamb and pork as well.

If the concern is related to the plight of the kangaroo, then what maybe isn't known in this country is that there are more kangaroos in Australia now than when Captain James Cook landed in 1770.

How do I know this? Because I'm an Australian and I live there!

We recently had to cull 40,000 kangaroos (about less than 0.5 per cent of the population) from southern Victoria as there was not enough food to sustain them and they were starving to death.

These animals were actually raiding people's yards (yes jumping six foot fences) to try to find something to eat.

This was not seen as too much of a problem until the animals became more aggressive and began attacking children in schoolyards and people walking their dogs late in the afternoon.

So what happened to the carcasses? I'm not sure but maybe you should ask your carnivorous dog?

Why is it, Mr Beaven, that just because you don't support the eating of meat, everyone else should agree with you? Isn't this line of thinking currently employed by Al' Qaeda?

Anthony Tripley

Watchfield