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"The
Kangaroo Betrayed
The World's Largest Wildlife Slaughter"
Editor:
Maryland Wilson, President of the
Australian Wildlife Protection Council
Graphic Artist:
Brigitte Charron
Published
1999 (second edition)
Hill of Content Publishing Co Pty Ltd.
86 Bourke Street
Melbourne 3000
Australia
ISBN Number
0 9586178 0 5
Price
$19.95 (Aus) Click
here to find out how to order
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This book is part of a National
Kangaroo Campaign Project and was produced by the Australian
Wildlife Protection Council. Fully illustrated with beautiful
and tragic photographs of kangaroos, it explains the complex
issues surrounding the largest wildlife slaughter in the world.
It unveils the ugly propaganda proffered by Australian Federal
and State governments and supplies easy to read facts and views
from a wide range of reputable contributors.
With the Sydney Olympic Games 2000
upon us we are on the world stage - 'hardly a time to be slaughtering
our national symbol and serving it as a patriotic gourmet delight
or pushing kangaroo products. Outrage is the reaction
and, in fact, in France a documentary depicting the outback
slaughter is to be shown on public Channel 2 before the end
of the year. Paul McCartney and Brigitte Bardot have condemned
Australia's brutal treatment of kangaroos. Americans do
not want to eat our National Symbol.
THE KANGAROO
BETRAYED! is a signal of crisis, a challenge to the status
quo. The issue of 'culling' Skippy, the unique, friendly
and vulnerable kangaroo evokes and stirs strong emotions; but
it goes much deeper to demonstrate that seeing mobs of kangaroos
at sunset offers one of the greatest wildlife experiences on
earth and that Skippy is worth more ALIVE than he is dead to
the tourism industry.
Like it or not, this is an issue
that will not go away and this book forces us to confront, get
the facts and change the way we 'manage' our wildlife.
Much of the content of this website
is derived from the book.
"The
Kangaroo BETRAYED!"
Publication of this
book is timely, with the eyes of the world focused on Australia
in the year 2000 as we host the Olympic Games. What will the
world think when it comes to realise that the most readily recognised
symbol of Australia is routinely slaughtered and butchered?
Little wonder is it that the faunal emblems to be used are the
kookaburra, platypus and echidna and not the kangaroo. The Olympic
movement seems to want to shun any association with the betrayal
of our national emblem. Perhaps the world will similarly shun
Australia when it realises the truth of how the kangaroo has
been betrayed!
- Keith
Edwards- Animals Today
Reviews
of "The Kangaroo BETRAYED!"
1) 'Animals
Today' Vol 7 #3 1999
by Keith Edwards
2) VEGAN VOICE March
- May 2000
by P. Mellon
Copies of "The Kangaroo Betrayed"
are available for $19.95 (Aus) plus postage by cheque, credit
card etc.
To purchase a copy please contact:
Hill of Content Publishing
86 Bourke St
Melbourne 3000
Victoria Australia
After you enter the
site, use their search facility to look for "The Kangaroo
BETRAYED!".
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"Last
night
as you slept 20,000 kangaroos
and their joeys were
killed by the commercial
kangaroo industry
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