Australia's camel plague might be good for the milk business, one fan says

There's one way to take the sting out of Australia's camel plague, milk them for profit. So says former miner and West Australian camel dairy executive Marcel Steingiesser. Mr Steingiesser says rather than calling camels a pest, they should be looked at as a resource. This week it was revealed Australia is wrestling with the problem of how to deal with more than a million feral camels spread across much of outback Australia. Brought here as the perfect transport animal for the harsh interior, they were released into the wild with the coming of the first trucks, and their numbers have exploded. There have some aerial culling programs but the size of the problem is too much for anyone to tackle, it appears. Mr Steingiesser said there has been a 20 per cent global rise in demand for camel milk in the past few years. MORE READING: Beef rallies against UN food summit. He said the popularity of camel milk has been boosted by COVID-19 and the pandemic lockdown as more consumers shift ...