Bruce in West Oz
Member
From a Sporting Shooters Association of Australia e-mail Alert:
I've emailed. Perhaps you could do so as well? There is enough factual material in this e-mail or on the given website for you to become conversant with the situation.
Mods: This IS gun-related because kangaroos are taken commercially by professional roo shooters, working at night with spotlight and 4WD, using a .222 or .223 or .22-250 or very similar calibre. Animals have to be headshot to be accepted by the processors.
TIA.
I've emailed. Perhaps you could do so as well? There is enough factual material in this e-mail or on the given website for you to become conversant with the situation.
Mods: This IS gun-related because kangaroos are taken commercially by professional roo shooters, working at night with spotlight and 4WD, using a .222 or .223 or .22-250 or very similar calibre. Animals have to be headshot to be accepted by the processors.
TIA.
Dear All
The kangaroo industry and indeed several other sustainable wildlife use
industries, need a few seconds of your time.
The USA State of California has a very old piece of legislation banning
the sale of kangaroo, crocodile or alligator meat or leather. It is the
only USA State with such a law and probably the only place in the
world. A bill to drop it from the statutes has been introduced by the
Cal. Senator Dennis Hollingsworth.
This of course has angered the vocal micro-minority who would have the
world become vegans and who refuse to understand the benefits of
wildlife utilisation for conservation. They have launched a lobby
campaign to oppose Senators Hollingsworth bill. He and other Cal.
Senators targeted need to know that there are a huge number of people
who support kangaroo and other wildlife use.
PLEASE email him and ask your colleagues to do the same.
Tell him:
• Kangaroos are super-abundant (56.8 million of them at the last survey in
2002)
• They are harvested humanely; the RSPCA are on record praising the
professionalism of kangaroo harvesters
• Kangaroo harvesting actively contributes to environmental sustainability
by helping control total grazing pressure in the fragile arid rangelands
• Australian scientists, conservationists and the general public
overwhelmingly support kangaroo harvesting
Please send your email supporting the bill to Senator Dennis
Hollingsworth
[email protected]
If you can please cc the email to the following list of Californian
Senators who are being lobbied by the 'vocal micro-minority' to oppose
the bill (you can do so simply by running your cursor over the entire
list and copying it into the Cc line on the email address box). It's
important they see just how 'micro' this group is.
[email protected], [email protected],
[email protected], [email protected],
[email protected], [email protected],
[email protected], [email protected]
regards
John Kelly
Executive Officer
Kangaroo Industries Association of Australia
PO Box 447, Woden, ACT 2606
ph (03) 6326 8639
fax (03) 6326 2790
Email [email protected]
http://www.kangaroo-industry.asn.au/