According
to a story we saw on web site canoe.ca, there is a large and growing demand for
camel's milk in the Indian state of Rajasthan, after an 88 year-old man claims
drinking the stuff enabled him to father a child.
The
price for camel's milk has apparently doubled over the last few weeks, from 40
rupees (eight cents US) a litre, up from 20 rupees (four cents) a few weeks ago.
The
new father, Virmaram Jat, a farmer, puts down his sexual prowess to drinking camel's
milk, so says the Times of India.
It
is not clear if he is related to any of the vendors selling camel's milk in the
state.
Doctors
and scientists reportedly say that it's probably not the camel's milk that did
it.
30th
August 2006
