Tim Flannery, now at the South Australian Museum, and Michael Archer of the Australian museum, both want us to eat wildlife. Archer has had extensive media coverage of his calls for native animals as both pets and food. In particular, they want us to farm and eat native animals. They want us to eat kangaroos, possums, emus etc. They want us to eat bush tucker.
Lets do the sums.
That's about 240g per animal. Even if we add in the meat sold as pet food, each kangaroo yields just 6.8 kg per animal. Even if we stop leaving kangaroos shot for the skin trade to rot in paddocks, we still have to realise that they are small animals. Take out the bones, skin and the other inedibles, and there just isn't much left. The Qld DPI puts the maximum potential supply of kangaroo meat at just 57,000 tonnes per year.