Россия - крупнейший в мире потребитель мяса кенгуру.

Половина австралийского экспорта в Россию приходится на мясо кенгуру.
На Дальнем Востоке из него делают сосиски. Дешево и вкусно.

Бизнесмен, занимающийся экспортом, заявил, что эмоциональный барьер "Я-не-буду-есть-кенгуру-они-такие-славные" в России очень низок, потому что славные они или нет, — а жрать хочется.

А крошку Ру удочерит хорошая американская семья из Техаса.

Russians snap up kangaroo snags
By Karen Michelmore in Moscow
August 02, 2005
From: AAP
 

KANGAROOS are a big hit in Russia, so long as they are made into sausages.
Russia is the biggest overseas market for the meat, accounting for almost one-third of kangaroo meat exports, and almost half of Australia's total exports to Russia, Austrade said.

Tonnes of kangaroo meat are exported to far east Russia each month, where it is turned into sausages and snapped up by hungry consumers.

"Australia can't produce enough kangaroo meat," importer Igor Dorokhov said.

"We need 100 containers per month, Australia can only produce 25.

"It's good meat; cheap and good."

Mr Dorokhov, who runs I D Game Meats, said kangaroo was becoming very popular among the eight million residents of far eastern Russia.

His thoughts were echoed by Austrade's Senior Trade Commissioner in Moscow, Gregory Klumov, who hoped the Russian market would expand to include restaurants.

"Russians recognise it is the leanest of all the red meats," Mr Klumov said.

"It's reasonably priced.

"Unfortunately not all of the kangaroo meat goes to restaurants – we would have liked that. It would have been better for Australia because it would have brought awareness to those products."

Mr Klumov believes culture and difficult climate of eastern Russia explain the craving for kangaroo.

"They have grown up in a very difficult environment with difficult weather conditions," he said.

"It's meat, so certainly a lot of them are used to a lot of canned meats, whale meats, seal meats, traditionally.

"Of course, in the far east, as well as in northern Russia ... the sources of protein are scarce.

"You hunt for the animals you can get.

"For them, kangaroo is certainly unique on one hand but on the other it's a good product.

"Their threshold for 'Oh I'm not going to eat kangaroo, they're such fluffy and nice animals', I guess, is much lower because there is not much choice, (and) they are used to exotic things."