Not all Australians can quite bring themselves to eat kangaroo. Some Australians do eat kangaroo meat, but many think about an innocent kangaroo bounding free, and they can't bring themselves to eat something like that.Nonetheless, the benefits are:kangaroo meat is very lean, being low in cholesterol and with less than 2% fatkangaroo meat is high in protein and minerals, especially iron and zincstudies indicate that people who eat kangaroo meat in place of "normal" red meat have lower risk of damage to their cardiovascular systemkangaroos are plentiful on the Australian continent, so the decision has been made that they might as well be farmed commerciallyit is commercially viable: the European market for kangaroo meat increased by 30 percent following the 2001 outbreak of foot and mouth d