But in order to sell nationally, emu farmers must process their meat at a facility approved by the U. Department of Agriculture. Emu meat is also costly for consumers, who generally buy the products online or at local stores.
When emu came onto the scene, there were too many birds and not enough buyers willing to pay such high prices. On the entire continent, there are fewer than birds on farms. Business is bad in India, too, where, after a mad rush to start emu farming, there were so many birds and so few buyers that some farmers abandoned their emus in the wild rather than pay for feed, according to Bloomberg.
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They all love it. The environmental footprint of raising emus is also considerably less impactful than raising cattle. For instance, according to National Geographic , it takes at least 5 acres of land to raise just one cow, but less than three acres to raise one emu. Also, each emu yields about 25 pounds of meat as well as several gallons of oil, which is used as salves and in industrial products. Unfortunately, the concept of emu becoming the next red meat never quite took hold.
Also, the price of emu meat is astronomically high. All of these factors, including the fact that many of the farmers who jumped on board the emu wagon in the s are now aging out of the industry, with no one left wanting to take on this uphill battle, has resulted in Texas emu farms disappearing left and right.
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