Camel milk, the Bedouin beverage of choice, is more nutritious than cow milk, with more potassium, more iron, and three times as much vitamin C. In fact, Camel milk will soon become available in grocery stores across Europe. In the meantime, candy makers from Vienna are developing a chocolate camel milk for the kids.
How does their body produce this level of nutrition with their apparently poor diet?
Camels’ vital role in supporting human populations in some of the poorest and frequently drought-stricken areas of the world has now been widely acknowledged (Hjort af Ornäs, 1988). Droughts in Africa, India and Mongolia over the past decade have demonstrated that camel ownership can give pastoralists an excellent chance for survival as the advanced physiology of a camel allows it to go one month without water and continue to produce milk on the poorest of diets. While entire herds of cattle, sheep and goats succumb to arid conditions, camel populations survive relatively unscathed. Consequently, some pastoral groups with deeply ingrained traditions of cattle herding, such as the Samburu in northern Kenya, started to acquire camels (Sperling, 1987), a fact which has come to the attention of development agencies and international organizations.
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