Only professional shooters, who operate under the commercial harvesting program, are scrutinised. Abattoirs will not accept their kills if it is not a headshot, so those killed inhumanely are worthless. There is no kangaroo farming in Australia: fillets seen on supermarket shelves or restaurant menus are wild-caught, killed by professional marksmen and gutted in the field.
Joeys are killed if their mother is shot, though professional shooters are not allowed to target females with obvious young. The description of that process, which was
, makes for difficult reading. But for the majority of wild harvested kangaroos, life is better than for farmed animals, and death is swift.