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huppakee@piefed.social to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish ·
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Camel pageant thrown into chaos after 20 competitors disqualified for using hump-plumping injectables

www.independent.co.uk

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Camel pageant thrown into chaos after 20 competitors disqualified for using hump-plumping injectables

www.independent.co.uk

huppakee@piefed.social to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish ·
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Camels at beauty pageant disqualified after using hump-plumping injectables
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Camel owners had used injections to enhance the camel’s lips, dermal fillers around their noses and silicone wax to enlarge the humps

Taken from a post on !microblogmemes@lemmy.world by @negativenull@piefed.world

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    Absolutely incredible headline, but kind of a fucked up article. They’re hurting camels to win a pagent, what the hell.

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      Now remember that child pageants exist.

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      From the same species that brought you rooster fighting, one way tickets to space for dogs, and shark fin soup: Extreme Makeover - Camel Injectables Edition

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        Don’t forget “driving lemmings over a cliff to make our documentary seem cooler while also spreading wild misinformation about the behavior of lemmings.”

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          What the heck! Which documentary was this?

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            The “Family Friendly” Disney documentary from the 1950’s.

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            found it on wiki: White Wilderness (1958)

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              Oh interesting! Thanks for the link!

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      Did you know the biomass of farmed mammals is 30 times greater than wild mammals? Our industrialized suffering is enormous.

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      Wikipedia recently picked me this article to rabbithole. These bots are supposed to replace child slaves because the usual adult camel riders just doesn’t tickle the same, huh

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        The slave is under the robot

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