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# Using Botox on a Camel
- URL: https://goodoil.news/using-botox-on-a-camel/
- Published: 2021-12-18T22:30:00.000Z
- Updated: 2021-12-17T22:16:12.000Z
- Author: Cam Slater
- Tags: Fun Stuff, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 01:31

It sounds like the sort of thing you’d be called “racist” for making up: *dozens of contestants thrown out of a camel beauty contest in Saudi Arabia for using Botox*. But it is, in fact, totally true.

Why bother trying to be satirical when the reality is even more absurd than a *Babylon Bee* headline?

> Dozens of camel owners in Saudi Arabia were ejected from the King Abdulaziz Camel Festival this year for using Botox to beautify their beasts.

As it is a strict Muslim country, they are forbidden from using alcohol to achieve the same result, as we do in the West.

> Officials tossed 43 camels from the competition after finding that their owners had tampered with their appearance. Competing for prize money of $66 million, the owners injected Botox into the camels’ lips, nose, jaws, and head, used collagen fillers to enlarge their lips and noses, and utilized hormones to encourage muscle growth.  
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> The owners even relied tactics like rubber bands, which they strategically placed on the animals to restrict blood flow, thus making certain body parts seem bigger than normal.

I shudder to think *which* parts.

> The King Abdulaziz Camel Festival has run since 1999, when local Bedouins decided to hold a contest to find the most beautiful camel.

We can only imagine the argument that *that* contest was used to settle.

> Today, the festival lasts 40 days and draws thousands of people — and their camels — from across the world. Some 33,000 camel owners from far-flung locations like the US, Russia, and France traveled to Saudi Arabia this year to compete, alongside 100,000 tourists who came to watch.  
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> In addition to the camel beauty contest, the festival includes camel races, sales, and even a petting zoo with the tallest and shortest camels. Camel breeding today is a multimillion-dollar industry and events like the King Abdulaziz Camel Festival take place across the country — though it’s the largest in the world.  
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> “The camel is a symbol of Saudi Arabia,” said **Fawzan al-Madi**.  
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> [All That’s Interesting](https://allthatsinteresting.com/king-abdulaziz-camel-festival?ref=goodoil.news)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/the_bfd_camelbeautycontest.jpg)

A bevy of beauties to set Saudi hearts racing. The BFD. Photoshop by Lushington Brady.

And Saudi Arabia’s camel fetish is a source of endless entertainment to we infidels.

It’s purely a vicious rumour that ISIS is planning a rival goat beauty contest.

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