That's right, it's the bouncing kangaroo, which has a "Doraemon" magic pocket and can take out a cub from it at any time. Now it is one of Australia's important meat export products, exported to more than 60 countries in the world, including the United States and Britain.
The story of kangaroo meat export has to start from Australia.
Looking around the world, Australia is a special country, because it is the only country that monopolizes a continent, so people are more accustomed to calling it Australia. As a monopoly country, Australia has not experienced too many wars and conflicts, so its natural ecology has been well maintained, and it is called the "World Museum of Living Fossils".
Animals and plants that have been extinct or never existed in other areas are well preserved in Australia. At present, there are 654.38+200,000 plants in Australia, 9,000 of which are not found in other countries. Of the 650 species of birds, 450 are endemic to Australia. As for those animals with big pockets, most of them are distributed in Australia and South America. Yes, those jumping kangaroos are one of them.
Australian aborigines are Australian aborigines. Because 70% of this land belongs to arid and semi-arid areas, Australian residents generally live in coastal areas, and areas with less human activities also help to preserve species diversity.
Peace in Australia has not escaped the great geographical discovery that began in the15th century. This paradise was successively entered by Spanish, Portuguese and Dutch colonists, and was later included in the territory of "not falling into the empire". Australia gained autonomy in 190 1, but it is still under British jurisdiction. Even after 193 1, it is no longer under direct jurisdiction, but it is still a country in the Commonwealth.
But probably because of this reason, when Australia wants to sell kangaroo meat in large quantities, the British side is still happy to help sell it.
So why does Australia eat such a lovely kangaroo? In fact, eating kangaroos in Australia didn't start from now. This creature has been the food for Australian aborigines since ancient times. But with the development of society, people's lives are getting better and better, and there are more delicious meat. In addition, kangaroos have gradually become Australia's iconic animals, and the Australian people have gradually stopped eating kangaroos.
However, it is almost impossible to find natural enemies in Australia. Once humans stopped eating them, they immediately began to flood into the Australian mainland. There are more kangaroos than Australian residents, reaching 60 million. You know, there are only 25.44 million residents in Australia.
A large number of kangaroos have brought a lot of trouble to the lives of local people. When the car is speeding on the Australian expressway, you have to worry about hitting a kangaroo from time to time. Moreover, the existence of a large number of kangaroos also destroyed the local ecological environment. In order to control the number of kangaroos, the Australian people can only continue to eat kangaroos, but Australia has a small population, so they choose to export kangaroo meat to all countries in the world.
Then the problem is coming. China is a well-known "foodie" country. Why is kangaroo meat exported to more than 60 countries? Why don't people in China like it? This has been bothering the Australian people. Actually, the reason is very simple.
On the one hand, I don't like it. Kangaroos have never appeared in China, so they don't belong to our traditional recipes. On the other hand, kangaroo meat is really not delicious. Many European countries are used to eating it for historical reasons, but China is not. There is so much beef, mutton and pork. Why do you have to eat kangaroo meat?