Why Don't We Eat America's 30,000+ Nilgai?
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There are more nilgai antelope roaming South Texas today than in their native India. Yet this abundant, legal-to-hunt big game animal has never made it onto a single grocery store shelf.
In 1924, a Texas rancher made a decision nobody fully explained — and it turned a stretch of South Texas into an almost perfect mirror of the Indian subcontinent. Today, over 30,000 nilgai roam free across the region, legal to hunt 365 days a year, with meat that hunters compare to premium venison. So why hasn't nilgai meat ever become mainstream food? The answer involves a century-old ranching mystery, a landscape coincidence, and a surprising twist involving cattle disease that still shapes how these animals are managed today.
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We’ve got 53 on our ranch near cotulla and we eat 3 a year
I have heard their meat consumed
Why Don't We Eat America's 30,000+ Nilgai?
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94,282 views
There are more nilgai antelope roaming South Texas today than in their native India. Yet this abundant, legal-to-hunt big game animal has never made it onto a single grocery store shelf.
In 1924, a Texas rancher made a decision nobody fully explained — and it turned a stretch of South Texas into an almost perfect mirror of the Indian subcontinent. Today, over 30,000 nilgai roam free across the region, legal to hunt 365 days a year, with meat that hunters compare to premium venison. So why hasn't nilgai meat ever become mainstream food? The answer involves a century-old ranching mystery, a landscape coincidence, and a surprising twist involving cattle disease that still shapes how these animals are managed today.
#nilgai #texaswildlife #WildGameMeat #ExoticGame #animalfacts
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