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Australian camels could be shot to curb methane
madison.com ^ | 09 june 2011

Posted on 06/09/2011 6:16:22 AM PDT by rellimpank

Kill a camel, earn cash for cutting greenhouse gases: That offer may be coming soon in Australia, where vast numbers of the nonnative, methane-belching animals have been trampling the Outback for more than a century.

The government has proposed that killing camels be officially registered as a means of reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Australia has the world's largest population of wild camels _ an estimated 1.2 million _ and considers them to be a growing environmental problem.

The proposal, released for public comment this week, would allow sharpshooters to earn so-called carbon credits for slaughtering camels. Industrial polluters around the world could buy the credits to offset their own carbon emissions.

(Excerpt) Read more at host.madison.com ...


TOPICS: Australia/New Zealand; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: australia; australian; banglist; camel; camels; curb; dromedary; globalwarming; methane; shot
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To: Kenny Bunk

I read the story at another source and it said they plan to use the dead camels for ‘human and pet consumption”, so I suppose they will not waste these animals for nothing. It seems to me that they could capture them and export them to places like the middle east that can use them..........................


61 posted on 06/09/2011 8:59:50 AM PDT by Red Badger (Nothing is a 'right' if someone has to give it to you................)
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To: 668 - Neighbor of the Beast

“Cash for humpers.”

Priceless!


62 posted on 06/09/2011 9:02:36 AM PDT by RicocheT
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To: Red Badger


63 posted on 06/09/2011 9:03:44 AM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: JoeProBono

It’s kosher and halal, so mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!............


64 posted on 06/09/2011 9:10:21 AM PDT by Red Badger (Nothing is a 'right' if someone has to give it to you................)
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To: 668 - Neighbor of the Beast
Cash for humpers.


65 posted on 06/09/2011 9:11:31 AM PDT by Red Badger (Nothing is a 'right' if someone has to give it to you................)
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To: bikerman
...taste like manatee’s

More like a cross between Whooping Crane and California Condor.

66 posted on 06/09/2011 9:18:37 AM PDT by Kenny Bunk (We live in America's "Awkward" Era. Too late to fix the country. Bit too early to start shooting.)
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To: naturalman1975
Camel is actually one of the meats that is officially permitted to be served in an Australian Meat Pie (one of our major ‘national foods’) and is actually a fairly common choice along with rabbit.

And both of those are invader species, which have become pests over the years. Good solution to a problem...

the infowarrior

67 posted on 06/09/2011 10:14:26 AM PDT by infowarrior
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To: Rebelbase

No problem, FRiend.


68 posted on 06/09/2011 10:18:35 AM PDT by Night Hides Not (If Dick Cheney = Darth Vader, then Joe Biden = Dark Helmet)
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To: Dogbert41
Can you guys even buy a rifle or ammo there any more, in numbers that would even dent the ferrel heards? What about your pigs?

Yes. Contrary to popular belief in the US, law abiding Australians can legally own a wide variety of firearms. A lot of nonsense was published in the US in the late 1990s about supposed 'gun bans' and 'confiscations' in Australia. Gun laws were 'reformed' at that time, and more restrictions were introduced than had existed before, but provided you don't have a criminal record, it's easy to get a licence for basic firearms, and quite possible to obtain licences for more powerful firearms if you are willing to navigate the red tape. One of the easiest ways to do this is to 'show a reason' for owning such a weapon - such as pig shooting or camel culling.

69 posted on 06/09/2011 4:39:01 PM PDT by naturalman1975 ("America was under attack. Australia was immediately there to help." - John Winston Howard)
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To: Kenny Bunk

Understand these camels are in very isolated areas. Quite literally, you could be nearly a thousand miles from any town with more than a thousand people in the middle of a dry, hot desert.

Unless you can shoot the camel, and get it into refrigerated storage within a short period of time, you’re not going to get a carcass that is much use for food purposes. And even if you do manage that, the transport costs involved in getting it to a place where it can be processed, and then the further transport costs, in getting it to the places where there are people to eat it. . . basically a large scale camel meat industry in Australia simply doesn’t make economic sense.

Those camels that are in more accessible areas are used commercially - but huge numbers - at least a million - are simply too far away to make that practical.


70 posted on 06/09/2011 4:46:28 PM PDT by naturalman1975 ("America was under attack. Australia was immediately there to help." - John Winston Howard)
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To: rellimpank

tell me there is really ....not people that are that Stupid in this world. Please?


71 posted on 06/12/2011 9:50:29 PM PDT by bobaloobob
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To: rellimpank

This story is 6 years old. They did not go through with it.


72 posted on 07/17/2017 6:32:02 PM PDT by IndispensableDestiny
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