Olive Wagyu - A Brief History
The rarest beef in the world began with one farmer, one island, and the idea of feeding cattle pressed olive peels.
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Olive Wagyu is the rarest beef in the world. It traces back to Shodoshima, a small island in Japan's Kagawa Prefecture, where one farmer — Masaki Ishii — began feeding pressed olive peels to his cattle. The result is beef with elevated levels of heart-healthy oleic acid, deep umami, and an unusually succulent texture.
This short film follows Crowd Cow to Japan to trace the origin of a beef that, until recently, almost no one outside the island had tasted.
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