When brother worked at a hot dog plant he tells of a story concerning a trainload of kangaroo carcasses that arrived. They spent several days guiding the FDA inspectors around it, always a few steps ahead of them to hide what was going on.
Isn't kangaroo a little costly for hot dogs here in North America?
Kangaroo carcases are rather low yield - they haven't had the benefit of several thousand years of selective breeding for meat. They're also a fair amount of trouble to butcher.
I won't be able to complete my kangaroo page until I finish with eudicots, but what I do know causes me to very much doubt stories like this.
33 years ago. I have no reason to doubt, I heard about his trials and tribulations concerning this for several days as it was happening. I assume they got imported without the correct paperwork, and were destined to be destroyed, therefor were underpriced as compared to legal meat, but I do not really know why.