July 5, 2011 - 3:18 pm
The International Society of Camelid Research and Development, which studies camels, objected to proposals to cull thousands of wild, farting camels in Australia’s outback to prevent an increase in Greenhouse Gases.
PARIS — The world’s association of camel scientists fought back angrily on Monday over Australian plans to kill wild dromedaries on the grounds that their flatulence adds to global warming. … The kill-a-camel suggestion is floated in a paper distributed by Australia’s Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency, as part of consultations for reducing the country’s carbon footprint.
There are about 1.2 million wild camels in Australia.
If they want to eliminate all the wild camels, wouldn’t that be a sort of hump-free bogart?
Gee, I thought greenies were against hunting and the extinction of species…
This is likely to cause A Dromedary Strain.
And a humpty dumping. (or is that humpty dumptying?)
There is one solution. Make the camels go hybrid. You know, like a Honda Civic. Cross them with a more “gas friendly” animal. Camelatypus?
Camellaby? Camelingo?
Slogan for saving them….Absence makes the farts go Honda?
I lived off of camel meat & camel milk for some seven months while assigned to the POLISARIO in southern Algeria & the Western Sahara. The locals (mostly in the SADR Army) would swear by the benefits of eating meat which they claimed had hardly any cholesterol at all, & was full of medicinal aids gathered by the camels eating obscure little shrubs & scrubs as they wandered the desert. The Saharawi use a strictly camel-based diet as a means of convalescence. I almost always ate the meat stewed with onions & garam masala. Of course, in that environment, practically anything would taste good if you were hungry enough.
It could become the new earth-muffin meat of choice – a whole new industry.