Source: China Daily
Saudi Arabia's annual King Abdulaziz Camel Festival has begun again. The judges will score the "most beautiful camel" according to the head, neck, hump, etc. of the camel, and award the grand prize. According to foreign media reports, more than 40 camels in this competition were disqualified for using medical aesthetic means to "enhance" their appearance. This is also the largest camel beauty pageant in Saudi history.
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In an attempt to keep artificially-enhanced camels out of official beauty pageants, Saudi authorities recently disqualified 43 camels over the use of Botox and other cosmetic procedures.
Beauty contests shut out cosmetic camels. Due to the injection of botulinum toxin and the use of other medical aesthetic methods, 43 camels were recently disqualified from participating in the beauty pageant by Saudi arabian officials.
Saudi Arabia’s King Abdulaziz Camel Festival is one of the several annual events that features a camel beauty pageant. These sort of competitions is such a big deal that some breeders reportedly resort to Botox injections and other cosmetic touchups to make their animals prettier. The Saudi Press Agency recently reported that over 40 camels were disqualified from this year’s King Abdulaziz Camel Festival pageant because of Botox injections and other cosmetic procedures.
The King Abdulaziz Camel Festival is one of several annual camel beauty pageants in Saudi Arabia. Such competitions are a big deal in Saudi Arabia, where some breeders reportedly inject camels with botulinum toxin and use other medical techniques to make them more beautiful. The Saudi News Agency recently reported that more than 40 camels were disqualified from this year's King Abdulaziz Camel Festival for injecting botulinum toxin and other medical methods.
Apparently, Botox is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the illegal use of cosmetic intervention for camel beauty pageants. Using collagen lip fillers, artificially increasing the animals’ muscles with hormones, and inflating body parts with rubber bands have all been documented in the past.
Obviously, botulinum toxin injection is just one of the many illegal medical aesthetic methods in camel beauty contests. In the past, there have also been the use of collagen lip augmentation for camels, hormones to make camels more muscular, and plastic rings to shape body parts.
The use of cosmetics by camel breeders has become such a big problem in recent years that competition organizers have had to adopt “specialized and advanced” technology to detect any unauthorized tampering with the animals.
In recent years, grooming of camels by breeders has become a headache, and race organizers have had to employ "professional and advanced" techniques to detect unauthorized grooming.
To ensure that the natural beauty of the camel is preserved, the animals are checked both physically and clinically before the pageant, using X-ray machines and sonar devices. Offenders risk fines as high as 100,000 riyals per camel for procedures like Botox or hormone injections.
In order to ensure that the natural beauty of the camels is preserved, the organizers use X-ray machines and sonar equipment to physically examine and clinically examine the camels before the competition. Violators who inject camels with botulinum toxin or hormones can be fined up to SAR 100,000 per camel.
It is reported that camel breeders find ways to beautify camels, and the most important reason is the temptation of money. Because a beautiful camel can sell for a large price, it can also win back the grand prize in the beauty pageant, bringing a huge economic return.
Camel breeding is big business in the Middle East, and good placing at beauty pageants can have seriously beneficial implications for the owners. And then there is the prize money. This year breeders at the King Abdulaziz Camel Festival are competing for about $66 million.
Camel farming is a big business in the Middle East, and getting a good result in a camel beauty contest is very beneficial to breeders. And the contest also has a prize money. This year, the breeders of the King Abdulaziz Camel Festival will compete for about $66 million in prize money.
Source: Oddity Central
Editor: Dong Jing