Export boom for birds

Updated December 18 2015 - 1:12pm, first published October 4 2013 - 4:00am
The national bird of Australia, the emu has proved to be a  popular farming enterprise in the US particularly, with its meat considered very lean, as well as high in iron.
The national bird of Australia, the emu has proved to be a popular farming enterprise in the US particularly, with its meat considered very lean, as well as high in iron.

OSTRICH AND EMU – THE large native birds of Africa and Australia respectively – may not be the first thing you would expect to see on a menu but in the past three decades they have been hailed for possessing lean, healthy meat and are farmed both in Australia and overseas.

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