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Olive wagyu has been called the rarest steak in the world. At over $500 a pound, it’s one of the most expensive meats you can buy. In Shōdoshima, Japan, Masaki Ishii creates olive wagyu by feeding his cattle the waste from local olive groves. An olive-wagyu cow is worth 1.2 million yen, or over $9,000. So, what makes olive wagyu different from other varieties of wagyu? And what makes it so much more expensive?

0:00 – Intro
1:30 – Shodoshima Island’s Olive Groves
2:52 – Recyling-oriented Agriculture
3:36 – Drying Olive Pomace
4:30 – Feeding The Cows
5:52 – Cooking Olive Wagyu
6:57 – Overcoming Obstacles
7:51 – Olive Cow Population
8:29 – Local Olive Industry

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Why Olive Wagyu Is So Expensive | So Expensive Food | Insider Business

42 Comments

  2. Orang Kita

    I still remember Mr. Onizuka's friend who wanted Mr. Onizuka to invest in this expensive beef field. GTO comics are always in the memory.

  3. Aditya Bora

    One simple answer to why its expensive is that it costeda life of happy living creature 🙂

  4. Vlatko Atanasovski

    Jesus Christ Saves, Believe in Him. Believe – Romans 10 Chapter 9 : 10; 1 Corinthians 15 Chapter 1 to 4; The New Testament – Bible. Glory and Thanks to Jesus Christ.

  7. Outlawz Rv

    You drink milk from cow and when she not able to produce milk you killed her for meat 🤬🤬

  9. Ze Chen

    If I eat olive wagyu beef, can I send my poop to the olive companies too 😅

  11. D. Paul Sikand

    because consumers are stupid……AND HYPE, AND PRICING THINGS
    OUT OF REACH TO ORDINARY PEOPLE….IS A MARKETING GIMIC….
    ESPECIALLY FROM JAPAN……..DRIED DOG SCHEIT IN JAPAN…..
    IS A $1000 PER OUNCE…….
    GROW UP………..!
    MOST FOOD ITEMS FROM JAPAN ARE NOT WORTH THE PRICE…..
    JAPAN=HYPE……….PERIOD

  12. A what1

    1.2 million yen per cow is 8,900 dollars .
    1lb of steak sells for 500 dollars.
    A cow weighs a lot more than 18lbs!

  15. Daniel Pacheco

    THE RUDY RODRIGUEXZ FAILED TO TAKE THE MACHO MAN AND LET THE MACHO MAN GET AN EXTENDED DAY OFF STREAK! THE RUDY RODRIGUEZ HAS HIS MACHO MAN STATUS REVOKED FOR 2 WEEKS AND WILL HAVE TO PAY A FINE OF $1,000. WHY IS IT SO EXPENSIVE?

  18. Blitzwolfer

    We need more people like Masaki who genuinely cares about the cattle and environment, and shows that you can still make a good profit using methods that recycles waste.

  20. Sarah

    So the cows get 250 gram of olive bi-product a day for 2 month. I’m failing to see where we’re supposed to justify the price jump. So why is olive Wagyu so expensive? Because it’s a marketing strategy giving the elusion that the cows are actually fed olives, real olives, as a diet. Nope. They get 250 g ( that’s like 2 cups) of an olive byproduct ( otherwise trashed garbage) for two months. Which means the real diet is normal cow feed . It’s amazing how the public is willing to put any product on a pedestal and justify the price so long as it’s Japanese.

  21. doduarrow

    so olive trees came from greece why they say olive. because in grek olive pronounce elia not olive

  22. Jordan Rivers

    Glad that sweet man, bought a cow. Lord bless and keep him. Steak; beef its whats for dinner. Add to grocery list.

  23. Nicholas Pendragon

    Olive + crushing = olive oil and pomace. Olive pomace already contains less oleic acid by virtue of it being stripped of the oils. Pomace is then dried in sunlight. Oleic acid is photosensitive and is prone to oxidization (The same reason why good quality olive oil is in amber bottles). Minimal quantities of oleic acid are then oxidized and degraded due to sunlight exposure. How does this minimal and degraded form of oleic acid enhance the oleic acid content in the actual beef?

  26. Rodney Durham

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  33. Emmanuel Rodriguez

    Folks, if they massage you often, and treat you very nice, they are prepping a surprise for you! Be aware! I need to try this Olive 🫒 Wagyu 🐄

  35. Yuelia

    "This is one of the rarest steaks in the world." Clearly, it isn't cooked.

  37. John Perry

    That steak in the beginning was cooked like shit. How’re you gonna leave a $$$$ steak with no sear at all? 🙄

  40. P M

    The way these titles are written is such bad design it makes me feel violent

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