We do eat a little camel, but mostly we are culling a highly-destructive introduced species, and the terrain combined with the heat and the vast numbers of targeted animals usually precludes much meat recovery. It is more important to serve the interests of the desert environment and native wildlife than to worry about the utilisation of the meat of feral game. In some areas, at some times, some pet meat is recovered, as well as some for human consumption; whilst this is indeed good, if we were to only shoot these animals in areas where recovery is logistically possible, we would have a far greater environmental disaster on our hands than what we already have. In other words, recreational shooters and hunters play a huge role in managing feral animal populations.

By the way, the right meat from a younger camel is delicious; donkey meat was (is?) used by cattle station people occasionally in the unlikely event that they could not find a killer for beef.