It costs about $15,000.- to buy one Alpaca, so how much for one Alpaca Burger???

Erica 😮

It costs about $15,000.- to buy one Alpaca, so how much for one Alpaca Burger???   Erica 😮

Erica, around our area you can buy Alpacas for as cheap as $400 each.

If I ate meat I would. It is no different to eating any other animal.

Is it the male that costs thousands and the females are cheaper?

I wouldn't eat a cute Alpaca. 

Is it the male that costs thousands and the females are cheaper?   I wouldn't eat a cute Alpaca.

Don't think so, doesn't seem to matter what the sex, they're all around that price (advertised on the native Aussie tree site). They probably get really expensive for the registered breeding ones, but there are quite a few (male and female) available around the $400-$500 mark.

They may have been really expensive when they first became fashionable for farming?

I don't have a problem eating cute and cuddly, as long as it's been looked after well and dies a quick and humane death.  I'll try most foods at least once.

Haven't had Alpaca, but have tasted croc, emu, goat, camel, sheep's testicles, roo, etc.

NO.

what's next?   

Horse burgers?:_|

NO.   what's next?      Horse burgers?:_|

I read in an english newspaper that some frozen lasanges are made from horse meat:_|

Blerk!

blerk indeed!

I would try them. 

apparantly there are many countries who do eat horse meat, the other night they served wallaby on masterchef:_| I guess it would be similar tasting to kangaroo meat?

The spokesman for the company said the meat taste similar to lamb and veal.