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Forget the infamous "Get some pork on your fork" and "Be like Sam, serve lamb" advertising campaigns. We could soon be urged to eat roo for Australia, as the kangaroo meat industry looks for a lifeline after its export market collapsed.

Anyone who names things for a living will tell you a name is simultaneously the most important and least important signifier of a brand.