*Switching from beef to kangaroo burgers could significantly help to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, says an Australian scientist.
The methane gas produced by sheep and cows through belching and flatulence is more potent than carbon dioxide in the damage it can cause to the environment.
But kangaroos produce virtually no methane because their digestive systems are different.
Dr George Wilson, of the Australian Wildlife Services, urges farming them.
He says they have a different set of micro-organisms in their guts to cows and sheep.
Sheep and cattle account for 11% of Australia's carbon footprint and over the years, there have been various proposals to deal with the problem.
Now Dr Wilson believes kangaroos might hold the answer.
He said: "It tastes excellent, not unlike venison - only a different flavour."
The country already produces 30 million kangaroos farmed by landholders in the outback.
But Dr Wilson is keen to see that population dramatically increased to produce the same amount of kangaroo meat as that currently produced by conventional livestock.*
I find all this "save-the-planet" stuff a joke, nobody is going to stop production of motor vehicles, people buying cars and driving them. Nobody is going to stop myself and almost every woman of the world from using exessive amounts of hairspray, it just won't ever happen. Governments and scientists and eco-warriors are looking in all the wrong places. They will need to eradicate money and greed, kill off all forms of convenience, that is the heart of the pollution emittive beasts. That is the real battle, one which will always be lost.