Thanks lads! Camel tastes fine, but I would say that the meat at the restaurants or butcher's shops comes from cows or calves. I've never eaten camel while I've been in the bush hunting them, only at this really flash revolving restaurant in down-town Sydney once. In Australia, our hunting is mostly done to help control feral species, and as such we don't have the same laws regarding meat recovery that you have in the USA. Ferals are culled and hunted in various ways and in large numbers, and are mostly left for the native wildlife, like goannas and wedge-tailed eagles. Also, the heat and distances and sheer size of the animals make meat recovery difficult or impossible. As for the native people, they are in a situation quite different to those in, say, rural Africa. Rightly or wrongly, depending on your view, every person in Australia has a financial income, and every community has a well-stocked shop, so there isn't the great clamour to get to a carcass like you read about in Africa. Well, that's a little piece of my Australia! Cheers, Ben
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