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Sous vide kangaroo is my effort to improve planetary health

Friday dinner. Sous vide kangaroo and Vegemite celeriac mash. Cooking roo meat for planetary health.
Friday dinner. Sous vide kangaroo and Vegemite celeriac mash. Cooking roo meat for planetary health.

Sous vide kangaroo is my effort to improve planetary health

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I attended a lecture on Tuesday night about planetary health and the notion that the earth and its inhabitants are currently emerging from the holocene epoch and entering the anthropocene epoch or geological age. Apart from the obvious remedies, the notion of eating more vegetables and more sustainable protein sources was mentioned with kangaroo being described as an earth and human-friendly source of protein. I murmured that’s all very well but kangaroo tastes disgusting. People turned around and berated me. I wondered if any of them had tasted a decent steak or pork crackling or lamb cutlet.

Then it dawned on me that in my current ‘sous vide epoch’ I should try to sous vide some kangaroo.

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