Why Ostrich

Humanely-Raised

Open Fields | Balanced Diet | Expert Care

Ostrich meat is a responsible choice that ensures animal welfare while greatly reducing the impact on our environment. Ostriches are raised in open fields, far from the confined and crowded environment factory farms. They are fed a well-balanced, nutritional diet. No steroids or hormones are used. At American Ostrich Farms, we have a profound respect for these amazing animals and treat them accordingly.

Delicious

Premium Quality | Tastes Like Filet Mignon

Ostrich is the healthy red meat and a delicious alternative to red meat and white meat.

• Ostrich meat tastes like premium prime beef or filet mignon.
• As a lean red meat, ostrich is a one-to-one replacement in classic beef recipes.
• Ostrich is available in steaks, fan filets, tenderloins, burgers, round, tips, and more.
• Ostrich is a lean, flavorful meat that doesn’t cook down or shrink on the grill.

Sustainable

Less Water | Less Land | Reduced Waste

Producing one pound of ostrich meat requires dramatically less water, feed, and land, and creates far less greenhouse gas emissions and waste.

• Ostrich meat uses 1/3 the freshwater and 1/50 of the land that beef requires.
• Reduced waste by using virtually every part of the animal to create value-added products like pet foods , oil, soap, eggs, and more.
• Ostriches produce less than 1/10 the greenhouse gases per pound produced of beef.
• Ostrich emit significantly less methane than beef, pork, or sheep.
• Superior feed conversion ratio.

Healthy

More Than 97% Lean Meat | More Iron

Ostrich meat is a lean red meat, low fat, and more nutritional than any other red meat—beef, bison, duck, etc.

• Ostrich meat is more than 97% lean and low in saturated fat.
• Ostrich meat has ⅓ the fat of beef.
• Ostrich meat has more iron and less cholesterol than any other red meat.
• Ostrich meat is safe. It doesn’t carry the pathogen loads as other meat and our flash-frozen process ensures a safer product.