- Signatures: 114
- Goal: 1,000
- Deadline: 5-11-2009
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Email this PetitionRemove California's ban on kangaroo meat.
More info on the pending legislation:
http://ozpolitic.com/sustainability-party/kangaroo-law.html
The Sustainability Party of Australia supports this petition:
http://www.ozpolitic.com/articles/sustainability-party.html
More information, discussion:
http://ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1179303108
The Kangaroo and the Usurper:
| Number | Date | Prefix | Name | State | Country | Are you a vegetarian? | Picture | Report |
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| 123 | 1:35 pm PDT, Jul 4 | shawn king | California | United States | no |  |
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| 122 | 9:41 am PST, Nov 18 | Mrs. | Melanie Driver | South Africa | |
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| 121 | 3:45 pm PDT, Oct 20 | Mari Young | Australia | NO DON'T ALLOW OUR KANGAROOS' MEAT INTO CALIFORNIA!!! Since 1980, 73 million kangaroos in Australia have been killed by the Kangaroo Industry and turned into pet food and sports shoes. Around 14 million pouch joeys have been bashed to death or decapitated, and 7 million young at foot joeys have been orphaned, and left to die a slow and lonely death from stress, starvation, and exposure. This combined with years of intense drought, floods and bush fires, has seen Red Kangaroos, Western Grey Kangaroos, Eastern Grey Kangaroos, Wallaroos and Euros plummet to densities of less than 5 per square kilometre (“quasi extinct”) across most of Queensland, New South Wales and South Australia. These species are now at risk of extinction in these states, and if the commercial industry is allowed to continue, scientific forecasts predict mass extinctions of Red, Western and Eastern Grey Kangaroo, Wallaroos and Euros, across most of New South Wales, Queensland and South Australia. |  |
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| 120 | 2:29 pm PDT, Oct 20 | Ms. | Vivienne Ortega | Australia | Yes - where is all this kangaroo meat coming from? Kangaroos can't be farmed, and they only have a little bit of meat (game standard). They are being threatened by climate change now. Get real - it won't happen! Eating meat is not sustainable with our loss of land and our massive population. | |
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| 119 | 11:12 am PDT, Jul 10 | Laurel Watson | Arizona | United States | |
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| 118 | 7:29 am PDT, May 25 | Deborah Cooper | United Kingdom | |
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| 117 | 3:51 am PDT, May 3 | Mr. | Kenneth Fort | Minnesota | United States | |
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| 115 | 9:37 pm PDT, Apr 23 | Dee C. | New York | United States | |
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| 114 | 9:09 am PDT, Apr 15 | Nicole Wetzler | California | United States | No | |
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| 113 | 12:10 pm PDT, Apr 7 | Ms. | Sabine Zwanink | Netherlands | |
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| 112 | 6:03 pm PST, Feb 19 | Mr. | John Crunkleton | California | United States | No |  |
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| 111 | 5:39 pm PST, Feb 14 | Ms. | Lisa Blundell | Australia | Yes! | |
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| 110 | 6:33 pm PST, Jan 19 | Ms. | Anonymous | California | United States | I heard about kangaroos being used for meat to cut greenhouse gas emmisions.Every year livestock produces 1.5 tons of co2 emmissions into our atmosphere.kangaroos and meat the americans should have to give up if we are to respect all animals.Let,s eat greener or organic or nothing at all. | |
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| 107 | 2:12 am PST, Nov 17 | Carl Nielsen | Denmark | |
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| 106 | 7:33 pm PST, Nov 15 | Mrs. | cris Colombi | Argentina | |
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| 105 | 12:41 pm PDT, Jul 31 | Mrs. | Anonymous | California | United States | No | |
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| 104 | 12:32 pm PDT, Jul 31 | jonathan deluna | California | United States | no | |
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| 103 | 5:51 pm PDT, Jul 25 | Anonymous | California | United States | No, and I'm never gonna be one. Naa, naa, naa, PETA! In your face! Get a life you idiots (PETA & AR's). | |
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| 102 | 11:28 am PDT, Jul 18 | Leland Lim | California | United States | No | |
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| 101 | 10:24 am PDT, Jul 12 | Mr. | Randolph McDonald | California | United States | no |  |
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| 100 | 10:48 am PDT, Jul 5 | Stoyka Chipchakova | Bulgaria | |
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| 99 | 8:57 pm PDT, Jun 28 | George Hayduke | New Mexico | United States | What a bunch of nonsense. Freediver Freediver? Gimme a break. Hey, Ace, who told you Americans want to eat freakin' Kangaroos? I think you been out in the sun too long without a hat on. Must be that ozone hole.... Pure stupidity. |  |
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| 98 | 1:16 pm PDT, Jun 13 | Kasara Fullerton | Texas | United States | no and never will be! I love meat!!!!!:) | |
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| 96 | 4:04 am PDT, Jun 6 | Mrs. | Regina Marino | Connecticut | United States | |
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| 95 | 5:28 pm PDT, Jun 5 | Anonymous | Virginia | United States | YES. "No, I'm not. I heavily oppose the comparison of kangaroos to seriously endangered species *yuk*" ONLY AN IGNORANT MORON WOULD SAY THIS OUT OF STUPIDITY - SOMEONE NOT FROM OZ - FIGURES. DON'T SIGN THIS PETITION, IT'S DECEITFUL! | |
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| 94 | 1:14 pm PDT, Jun 4 | Sasquatch Of The Kern | California | United States | This is really sad. Why does care2 allow idiocy like this on their site? If I were a human, I wouldn't sign it. Who is this Freediver Freediver person anyway, some kind of a psycho? Care2 is supposed to be here to help the environment. Don't sign!! |  |
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| 92 | 10:28 pm PDT, Jun 1 | Archie Larsen | California | United States | What a farce! It's sad that care2 allows tripe like this to degrade their site. I'm a native Californian, and I hope my legislators understand that Californians do not want kangaroo meat in their stores. Any representative that votes for this claptrap will have to answer for it at the polls. |  |
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| 91 | 4:44 am PDT, Jun 1 | Solent of Solentcia | United Kingdom | I am not a vegetarian or from the USA, but I am an omnivore. I enjoy most cooked meats and most vegetables. However, like most humans, my digestive system can only cope with some of the vegetable matter that grows in this world. Animals on the other hand can easily convert nearly all vegetation into flesh and hence energy for us humans. I have not been offered the opportunity to try kangaroo meat but given the chance, I will. If some police forces in the US of A are issued kangaroo hide shoes, then why is their meat restricted?? |  |
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| 90 | 11:58 pm PDT, May 31 | Anonymous | Sweden | No, I'm not. I heavily oppose the comparison of kangaroos to seriously endangered species *yuk* | |
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| 89 | 6:50 pm PDT, May 31 | Claire Farnsworth | Utah | United States | Glad to sign | |
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| 88 | 3:19 pm PDT, May 31 | Lorraine Emanuele | California | United States | I am not a vegetarian, but I was one for three years. My reason for quitting meat when I did was the inhumane treatment of farmed animals. I have seen emu farms here in California, and they are thriving. If we allow the farming of emus (which are certainly not indigenous to California), and we allow the import of New Zealand lamb (who eats baby animals, that's horrendous!), and if they sell buffalo burgers at Buffalo Bill's in Julian, California (which I frequent, but not for buffalo) and many other restaurants, I don't understand why should we have a ban on kangaroo meat. It seems like hypocrisy to me. I urge my representatives to look further into the premises of the ethical debate which produced the ban on kangaroo meat in the first place and reconsider them. If you find that there are contradictions, one way or another, I urge you to work toward a more consistent policy regarding all game meat sales. Thank you. | |
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| 87 | 11:29 am PDT, May 31 | Marc Gartmann | Netherlands | Yes, but I do not see the difference between eating roo meat, or cow, or pigs. People will not stop eating meat because I don't. If kangaroo is better for your health and the environment, and they are treated better then their factory farmed buddies like chicken, or pigs, etc..., why not. Enjoy your Skippy, and I hope you say grace before dinner. | |
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| 86 | 6:33 am PDT, May 30 | Mr. | Paul Raymond Walsh | New York | United States | No but learning to convert |  |
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| 85 | 4:22 am PDT, May 30 | James Hovland | California | United States | No. | |
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| 84 | 4:02 am PDT, May 30 | Dr. | Emily Ivanova | Armed Forces Americas | Bulgaria | no |  |
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| 83 | 7:27 pm PDT, May 29 | Mr. | Michael D.Dowdy | Missouri | United States | |
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| 82 | 3:45 pm PDT, May 29 | Mrs. | Helen Hirst | Australia | This is the biggest disgrace a Care2 member could pull on us. DON'T SIGN THIS PETITION...We don't want the Kangaroos culled so why would we export them for their meat. | |
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| 81 | 8:19 am PDT, May 29 | Mrs. | karen Stillwell | Tennessee | United States | |
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| 79 | 1:57 am PDT, May 29 | Mr. | guido cannarsa | Italy | |
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| 78 | 8:02 pm PDT, May 27 | Kathleen Cole | Ohio | United States | Yes,for 10 years. |  |
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| 77 | 5:47 am PDT, May 27 | Mr. | Robert Richrdson | Pennsylvania | United States |  |
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| 76 | 1:50 am PDT, May 23 | Betty Unterbrink | Illinois | United States | |
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| 75 | 9:05 pm PDT, May 20 | Mr. | Nathanial Hewson | California | United States | |
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| 74 | 9:42 am PDT, May 18 | Leah Powers | Armed Forces Americas | Canada | |
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| 73 | 6:16 am PDT, May 18 | mylene de la fuente spoor | Mexico | |
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| 72 | 7:40 pm PDT, May 17 | Ms. | Jeanne Austin | Pennsylvania | United States | Yes, but I have alot to say about what, we the people, are being served on our plates ! I do not want my family eating Kangaroo, they are not vegetarians ! Kangaroos are to be left alone and to enjoy their freedoms !!!! NO Kangaroo Meat for Profit, that's all it is, Profiteering ! | |
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| 71 | 9:01 am PDT, May 17 | Manuel Duarte | Armed Forces Americas | Portugal | |
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| 68 | 5:52 pm PDT, May 16 | Ms. | Rhonda Rector | South Carolina | United States | |
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| 67 | 6:40 pm PDT, Apr 21 | Bruce Hogben | Australia | Before Europeans arrived in Australia, the country had not a single hoof. Now it has feral camels, buffalo, goats and more, and cattle and sheep farming legally destroys the landscape. Kangaroos exist in their millions and are hardy, soft-footed and adapted to the environment.. They do not wreck it. It's just common sense at so many levels to switch to roo farming. | |
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| 66 | 4:29 am PDT, Mar 29 | Mrs. | T. Williams | Australia | No. Lets nurture mother nature and rejoice in the circle of life. Kangaroo is native to Australia, and thus is a natural, healthy re-newable resouce that should be embraced. Roo hunting is a regulated and required Aussie industry. | |
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| 65 | 2:20 am PDT, Mar 22 | Ms. | Anonymous | Kansas | Romania | no |  |
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| 64 | 2:04 am PST, Feb 16 | Elainna Crowell | Armed Forces Americas | Canada | No and I believe roo meat is far healthier (lower in fat). Besides raising kangaroos for meat and their hides is much better for the environment, since their hoofs do not compact the soil like cows and their grazing is far easier on the grass lands as well |  |
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| 63 | 11:08 am PST, Dec 28 | Jacqueline McVicar | Florida | United States | |
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| 61 | 12:22 pm PST, Dec 6 | Thomas Markham | Arkansas | United States | |
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| 60 | 7:29 am PST, Dec 5 | Sue Lampard | Armed Forces Americas | United Kingdom | |
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| 59 | 6:14 pm PST, Oct 29 | Hugo Gilbert | Australia | No, there are so many wonderful reasons why Roo meat is healthy & correct to be consumed by humans. It meat is Delicious, these animals are being culled anyway |  |
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| 58 | 3:48 pm PDT, Oct 26 | Catherine Methot | Canada | yes |  |
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| 57 | 7:34 pm PDT, Oct 24 | mark smith | Louisiana | United States | |
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| 56 | 9:17 am PDT, Sep 4 | Kim Carter | New Hampshire | United States | no I'm not a vegetarian...but please stop killing the kangaroos...there's no need for that... | |
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| 54 | 8:43 am PDT, Jun 30 | Anonymous | Michigan | United States | No...Some kangaroos are considered pest in Australia so if they're going to be shooting them we should at least eat them - No different than beef or ostrich or chicken | |
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| 53 | 8:42 pm PDT, Jun 29 | Brian Reynolds | New Jersey | United States | |
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| 52 | 3:57 pm PDT, Jun 27 | Chris Rasley | Canada | I am not vegetarian. I tried kangaroo meat on a vacation in Australia and would like to be able to buy it closer to home. | |
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| 51 | 7:54 pm PDT, Jun 19 | Mr. | Anonymous | Azerbaijan | No, but to I know accidental signatures here . | |
Allow roo meat into California
We the undersigned call upon the Californian legislature to remove the ban on kangaroo meat sales. This ban was introduced because a senator's wife came to believe that they are endangered. The kangaroo harvest in Australia is both sustainable and ethical. Banning Kangaroo meat while importing Australian beef reinforces the economic conditions that are causing the destruction of our farmland. Most of our land is too fragile to support cattle farming because of the destructive nature of cattle. With your help we can hasten the day when our land is returned to it's native animals. Healthy, lean, free range, pesticide, drug, chemical and hormone free aussie roo meat, harvested in a sustainable and humane manner, is the sensible and ethical alternative to feedlots and tortured baby cows.
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