Why Olive Wagyu is so expensive

• At over $500 a pound, olive wagyu is one of the most expensive meats you can buy.
• There are only 2,500 heads of olive wagyu cattle on the island of Shodoshima.
• Farmer Masaki Ishii feeds his cattle waste from local olive oil groves.

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?