Mother Roo Poem by Saiom Shriver

As he was walking
down
a rue
he chanced upon a
mother roo
unchaining her
baby joey
that he avoid
a roux



Note: roo: a kangaroo

roux: a New Orleans

cooking base



Australia has massacred 6 to 16

6 million kangaroos annually...

often the baby joeys are clubbed

in their mothers' pockets after

their mothers have died



Canberra's Legislative Assembly approved the June 2012 massacre of 2000 kangaroos. The following year 1154 were murdered. The cadavers are processed, the flesh eaten, the skin used as leather



For a moratorium on all kangaroo slaughter in Australia

http: //www.gopetition.com/petitions/kangaroo-extinction/sign.html
http: //www.gopetition.com/petitions/kangaroo-extinction.html



A petition regarding the government's slaughter of kangaroos.... a tiny fractionof the total

http: //www.thepetitionsite.com/134/824/521/help-stop-the-killing-of-kangaroos-in-australia/.



http: //www.prijatelji-zivotinja.hr/data/image_3_226.jpg

http: //www.peta.org.au/issue/kangaroos-the-slaughter-of-our-national-emblem/