Camel Beauty Contest Enforcing Strict Botox Rules – IOTW Report

Camel Beauty Contest Enforcing Strict Botox Rules

Gulf News

Each year thousands of camels across Saudi Arabia and the wider Arabian Peninsula descend onto the small village of Rumah, 140km northeast of the Saudi capital of Riyadh, to compete in the King Abdulaziz Camel Festival’s beauty contest and racing competitions.

In pursuit of perfectly pouting lips and wrinkle-free noses, a number of competitors use Botox injections in the hope of scoring the top prize. Organisers at the King Abdulaziz Camel Festival are clamping down and enforcing stiff penalties to combat doctored dromedaries. When offenders are caught, they must pay SR100,000 per camel.

Mishaal Al Shwaish, a writer and economic expert, says Botox and fillers have serious health effects on camels, damaging vital organs, especially in the long term. More

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