When night falls in the Australian Outback, the hunt begins.
The prey: kangaroos roaming hopping in the wild.
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Thats a weekly event where that truck comes around.
We witnessed a number of those times the transferring of the carcasses from that refrigerator box to the truck.
I mean, what gives us the right to eat another creatures body?
Packages of kangaroo meat on a supermarket shelf in AustraliaMichelle Ostwald/picture alliance via Getty Images
Fitzgerald has been a vegetarian for various stretches in his life.
But he doesnt approach his subject from a doctrinaire perspective.
Cujo, the primary shooter with his son Darby, he worships the kangaroo he said this multiple times.
And yet at the same time, he kills hundreds of them every year.
Theyre both equally true and authentic.
It authorized a cull of almost 5 million roos, or 14 percent of the population.
The governments in a tough spot.
Thats really whats at play here.
Meanwhile, the culling continues, with a discernible impact on kangaroos.
Fitzgerald shot footage in slaughterhouses where kangaroos are processed but ultimately chose to leave that out of the documentary.
Still, there are plenty of bracing images inChasing Roo.
