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Do Camels taste bad or something??? I was reading over articles where 650k of them are going to be culled. Pretty good sized animal, should be able to make all sorts of good stuff out of it, Ground meat, sausage, steaks, roasts,stew meats, etc.??? May be a little tough but I haven't seen much a pressure cooker couldn't make just fall apart. Looks like from the article their numbers got way out of hand, to many peta activists???

Camel meat is exported to Arab countries from Australia.. It is widely consumed there but seen as a budget type meal , so prices are relatively low.
aNOTHER INTERESTING "POSSIBLE EXPORT" IS THE WATER BUFFALO ,, the degradation and the environmental damages caused by these feral pests in Australia's North have been identified and they are gonna get SHOT.They even made it into some paper on Global warming??? Water buffalo is eaten in a number of Asian countries , but once agin the price is not high

Why is this even put out on the news as a National problem ?!

"oh no , too much free meat running around in one small area , with hungry humans and their pet dogs nearby , whatever will we do ?!?!?!"

was a time were people werent scared to kill and eat nearby excess animals , especially pests that are big and fat and probably taste the same as cow after stewing

Oh right , political corectness or some wierd moral ethical thing gets in the way . I tell ya , life was better before they invented that damn wheel

actually , the way I was looking at it there kinda ties back into the thread where everyones argues whether fuel is too cheap or not - Hell yes it is ! - if fuel costs restricted meat from being brought in from OTHER COUNTRIES ( thats an insane idea ) , then there'd be no bloody pests like camels or water buffalo ( cane toad ? ) cause people would do what meat eaters are supposed to bloody do

bloody

Not only that ..... but i would be allowed to go whale fishing without pretending i am an Aboriginal.

While I don't eat bugs and things, I do eat a lot of things you would never find in a grocery store. It's hard to break thru cultural barriers like the yuk factor. I happen to like frog, turtle, nutria and muskrat. The latter two are rodents that left unchecked destroy the wetlands and undermine the levee systems. Both of which are more tender and flavorful than rabbit. But being a rodent (rat) repulses people. I would never eat a common rat. The nutria is an import which was being tested for it's fur comercial value and escaped and bred like wild fire during a time when the American Aligator numbers were so low they were Federally protected leaving the nutria to breed unchecked. When imported fur got cheap and popularity for fur went down nobody wanted to trap the 10-20lb critters and hall them out the marsh on their backs and skin and dry them and gut the carcus for $8- $10 for #1 hides and $3 for the carcus. Aligators are back in good numbers and don't have to look far for food. The nutria isn't as big a problem as they were 20 years ago but local sheriffs often make cull hunts and the gators eat the carcuses.

If any of you guys get the opportunity to get some of the meat, I found this:
http://www.keziefoods.co.uk/products/altmeat/camelmeat/

I do eat bugs ,,well i eat them when in my second home ..... North East Thailand , its just part of the normal food there.
Tried just about every animal ( when travelling SE Asia)but Rat and Bat ,, couldn't stomach the idea of them./

aww , but RatBat Souffle is so tasty !

I can assure you Porcupine is DELICIOUS:)

I had thought the taste would be a bit sharp...

Re Killing things in plague proportions nearby... how do I kill wild rabbits and hare in suburbia, without going to jail?

snare traps?

I believe snares are 'inhumane' and illegal.
Also, they seem not to have big warrens, just sleeping under bushes and such, so I would have a hard time working out where to be setting them.

live traps: http://mdc.mo.gov/nathis/woodwork/ww10/
cheap and easy to build most effective in winter when winds are blowing. Hard to get them in a box that hasn't caught one and isn't full of rabbit smell. Also if a preditor animal gets caught in one you may as well burn it. As small as they are the rabbit still manages to turn around. You stand the box on end slowly open the door and grab rabbit by the ears and pull it most of the way out. Grab the hind legs and drop the head end. Bang his head on something hard or karate chop at the back of the base of the head