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FORMER Beatle Paul McCartney has slammed a planned cull of hundreds of kangaroos on a Canberra military base

.As demonstrators promised human shields to protect the animals, McCartney appeared on a website set up by the British animal welfare group Viva! to condemn the cull of up to 500 animals using tranquilliser darts and lethal injection.

"There is an urgent need for action to protect kangaroos from a barbaric industry which slaughters them for meat and leather," McCartney said in an undated message.