SYDNEY (Reuters) – Move over, beef. Camel meat could become the newest Australian export as early as 2012 if an Egyptian businessman is successful with his bid to open a slaughterhouse and meat processing plant in a rural South Australian town.

Magdy El Ashram's ambitions would not only bring camel meat, which he says is healthier than beef, to dinner tables around the world, it would also reduce a feral camel population in the Australian outback that has caused serious ecological problems, and create up to 300 jobs in a place that badly needs them.

"Camel meat is much better than beef...it's the lesser fat than all the meat kingdom. If you put beef, mutton, kangaroo, emu any meat, then camel meat will be the lesser fat than all of them," he said.

"Camel is a popular food in the Middle East, North Africa and Europe, and Australia has the resources to provide meat to people who like it."

Originally introduced in 1840, mainly from India to provide transport, there are currently more than 1 million feral camels roaming over 3 million square km of outback Australia, breeding at a rate that doubles their population every nine years.

The Australian Federal Government has provided A$19 million ($20 million)over four years to assist in managing feral camels, and a camel culling program began in 2010. The animals cause more than A$10 million a year in damage to fragile outback ecosystems.

"Controlling the numbers decreases the pressure on the landscape in dry conditions and will result in fewer camels dying very cruelly due to starvation, dehydration and trampling," said Jane Ferguson, Managing Director at Ninti One Limited, a management firm in charge of the Australian Feral Camel Managing Project.

"Commercial camel operations need to be driven by economic considerations and need to address the animal welfare issues associated with mustering and transporting wild camels over large distances."

"A LITTLE CHEWY"


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yep Camel is a very lean meat, they carry virtually no fat at all.

We have a place called the ROAD KILL STAND . where they sell.

Crocodile.
Possum.
Camel,
Kangaroo,
bison,
and a few others that I cant remember.

Its all good, its no diferent to any other meat, they all have a slightly different flavorbut all re tasty with salt and pepper.


Anaconda is going to try them all when he gets here.. We just havent told him yet.

i've had possum,gator,and bison, but none of the others... rattlesnake is popular here in texas, but the others are hard to find

As long as I had salt and pepper I would try it..I tried frogs legs when I was over there, they wehre good.

Shouldn't you have unleashed
this on a Wednesday?
(Hump day.)

Do you get a side order of camel toe?

Sounds yummy!! Wish I had some to bbq.

blech.

*wretches violently*

...i'll gladly pay you tomorrow for a humpburger today..not..

froglegs are good... ever try crawdads? Looks like littel freshwater lobsters

Are they the same as yabbies. they look like prawns but you catch them from the dams, they are pretty good especially in garlic..
I just dont like seeing them with their little eyes staring at me,

Crawdads or crawfish (crayfish) look just like yabbies but are a lot smaller. A four inch long crawfish would be huge.

Crawfish are usually boiled up with lots of spice or are peeled and cooked into spicy dishes. They are great!

Llamas are camelids. Llama meat is so lean that we could hardly eat it. Tasted awful.

they had a kick here in texas for a while where framers were rasing emus and ostriches for a while, for resturants... but it went downhill pretty quick.

There are plenty of meats out there that most people do not eat, when I lived in Korea I would eat dog...it was actually good. Also a rat's hind leg is about the same as the meaty miniature drumstick part of the chicken wing and tastes about the same (road side stand)...

i remember getting a horseburger in mexico once...it was awful