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dc.contributor.authorWhite, Steven
dc.date.accessioned2018-07-24T04:43:55Z
dc.date.available2018-07-24T04:43:55Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.date.modified2014-08-04T22:59:52Z
dc.identifier.issn1176-7529
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/s11673-013-9445-8
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/59470
dc.description.abstractIn 2008 the Garnaut Climate Change Review: Final Report made a bold recommendation: >>For most of Australia’s human history—around 60 000 years—kangaroo was the main source of meat. It could again become important. … [Modelling shows] the potential for kangaroos to replace sheep and cattle for meat production in Australia’s rangelands, where kangaroos are already harvested. … [B]y 2020 beef cattle and sheep numbers in the rangelands could be reduced by 7 million and 36 million respectively, and … this would create the opportunity for an increase in kangaroo numbers from 34 million today to 240 million by 2020 … [leading to a] net reduction in greenhouse gas emissions (Garnaut 2008, 547–548).<< Perhaps inspired by the Garnaut Report, the Committee on Sustainable Agriculture and Environment, in the case study presented by Irvine (2012), is proposing to substitute rangeland domesticated animal farming with kangaroo harvesting to improve the ecology and soil quality of semi-arid regions in Australia. As laudable as this goal may be, the committee’s policy prescription rests on key assumptions about animal welfare that are open to question.
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dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherSpringer
dc.publisher.placeAustralia
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublicationN
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom273
dc.relation.ispartofpageto276
dc.relation.ispartofissue2
dc.relation.ispartofjournalJournal of Bioethical Inquiry
dc.relation.ispartofvolume10
dc.rights.retentionY
dc.subject.fieldofresearchApplied ethics
dc.subject.fieldofresearchPhilosophy
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode5001
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode5003
dc.title'Kangaroos vs. Cattle and Sheep: Animal Welfare, Animal Protection, and the Law'
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC2 - Articles (Other)
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gro.facultyArts, Education and Law
gro.rights.copyright© 2013 Springer Netherlands. This is an electronic version of an article published in the Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, Vol. 10(2), pp. 273-276, 2013. The Journal of Bioethical Inquiry is available online at: http://link.springer.com/ with the open URL of your article.
gro.date.issued2013
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gro.griffith.authorWhite, Steven W.


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