Posted on 12/09/2021 5:36:32 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
More than 40 camels have been disqualified from Saudi Arabia's beauty pageant for receiving Botox injections and other cosmetic enhancements.
The contest is a highlight of the King Abdulaziz Camel Festival, where $66m (£45m) in prize money is at stake.
Key attributes include long, droopy lips, a big nose and a shapely hump.
Judges used "advanced" technology to uncover tampering with camels on a scale not seen before, the state-run Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported. All contestants were first led into a hall where their external appearance and movements were examined by specialists, it said.
Their heads, necks and torsos were then scanned with X-ray and 3D ultrasound machines, and samples taken for genetic analysis and other tests.
The organisers of the pageant, the Camel Club, were cited as saying that they were "keen to halt all acts of tampering and deception in the beautification of camels" and promising to "impose strict penalties on manipulators".
They described how Botox was injected into camels' lips, noses, jaws and other parts of their heads to relax muscles; collagen fillers were used to make their lips and noses bigger; and hormones were given to boost muscle growth.
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This thread has potential.
Do the Bactrian camels get to show both of their humps?
Seems like an unfair advantage to me.
Is Clooneys wife in it?
I have a horse that self-identifies as a camel. Glad I didn’t enter it in that contest.
And people think pedigree dog breeders and exhibitors are nutty. Can’t touch these camel enthusiasts!
And, honestly, that's some kind of prize money. I can see why they mmight try to cheat to get it.
I like big humps and I cannot lie
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11587420/
All about camel pee.
Geez, muzzies are such goathumping, camel kissing freaks.
I thought this thread had to do with Kamela.
I thought they were generally more into goats.
Is Pelosi one of the contestants in the old camel competition ?
Is AOC?
The problem with “important “ people with too much money.
Truly, i work with circus show camels, America’s Show Camels,…, but i’ve never said “Would you just look at the long legs on that one!” Or “Oh, a black and white one!”
Holy Shte!
I thought it was the BB, too.
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