In 2004 I visited an Alpaca Farm. Cute animals but basically worthless, to small for pack work, little edible meat for food, fur that grows slow and can probably net one sweater a year. Yet, a thriving "business" trade exists, and was even parodied in Austin Powers in Goldmember in a deleted scene when Number 2 offered Scotty several new evil businesses, including Alpaca Farming.
