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Dino-Meat Company
"Emu, THE Natural Alternative!!"
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All BackCountry pure emu oil is "Certified Fully refined", the highest grade of emu oil recognized by the American Emu Association (AEA).
We welcome you to our website. Our company is a family owned and farm-based product company located in middle Tennessee. We raise our own emus so we know exactly what they are fed, how they are raised and how they are processed. We only offer the highest quality products and If you like buying the highest quality at the lowest prices, you have arrived at the right place!
The majority of our customers are repeat customers, many having bought our products for many years. We feel that this loyalty to our products is because our products are reasonably priced and do exactly what we claim they will do and we also provide great service before, during and after the sale. We do not have dissatisfied customers!
Our family personally uses each and every product that we sell and has used many of our products for 10+ years. This personal usage of products gives us the ability to tell our customers exactly how a product works from our own personal experience.
Our products can help you achieve better health, reduced pain and a more youthful appearance.
Dino-Meat Company and BackCountry Emu products sell only the highest quality pure emu oil and are distributors for a large selection of high quality emu oil products.
We also sell drained emu egg shells.
The emu, native to Australia, has been traced back nearly 60 million years to the age of the dinosaur. It is a member of the ratite (flightless birds) family and second only to the ostrich in size. For hundreds of years the emu has been revered by the native people of Australia, the Aborigines. It provided the Aborigines with meat, clothing and natural medicines. It is only in the past 15-20 years that the rest of the world has become aware of the products of this large bird. Healthy red meat that is extremely low in fat, hides that provide quality leather products and an oil that is rendered from the fat of the bird that may become one of the greatest natural discoveries of the 21st century. Today, these magnificent birds are being commercially raised in the United States for their heart-healthy red meat and their extraordinary oil.
Dino-Meat Company was incorporated in 1997 and has been providing emu products throughout the United States and around the World since before 1997. Emu meat to upscale restaurants, meat markets and to health-conscious consumers and emu oil to health stores, pharmacies, hospitals and to those consumers wanting relief from joint and muscle pains and various skin problems. We feel privileged to be able to offer our heart-healthy emu meat products, our Certified Fully-Refined pure oil and our high quality oil based products to those consumers who want to take greater control of their own health. Dino-Meat Company only sells meat products that are U.S.D.A. inspected and only pure oil that meets or exceeds the stringent specifications designated by the Industry Trade Rules of the American Emu Association for Fully-Refined emu oil.
Neil Williams, president of Dino-Meat Company and BackCountry Emu Products and wife, Lois, are well known pioneers in the emu industry. They became members of the American Emu Association (AEA) in 1993, with Neil having been elected to three terms on the board of directors from 1999-2004, serving as vice-president in 1999 and as president during 2000-2004. During Neil's tenure on the AEA board of directors, the AEA directors were successful in making great strides within the emu industry; legislation was passed to gain mandatory USDA inspection for emu, extensive research was performed at the University of Massachusetts proving the capabilities of emu oil, comprehensive nutritional tests and comparisons to all other meats were made on emu meat at the University of Wisconsin, trade rules were developed to define specifications for three grades of emu oil and a certification program was developed with the help of the American Oil Chemists Society (AOCS) to identify and certify Fully-Refined emu oil (the highest grade of emu oil recognized by the American Emu Association). Lois served on the board of directors of the Tennessee Emu Association (TNEA) since 2000, serving as president until 2004 and then serving as vice-president. Lois currently serves on the board of directors for the Tennessee Ratite Association having served there as president from 2001-2003. During Lois's tenure on the TNEA and TRA board of directors, the Tennessee emu industry has enjoyed great relations with the Tennessee Department of Agriculture, the middle Tennessee school systems and several middle Tennessee hospitals.
BackCountry Emu Products is also authorized to use the AEA Certified Fully Refined Emu Oil Seal on all of its emu oil having a batch number on file with the American Emu Association that has met the specifications for Fully-Refined Oil. Dino-Meat/BackCountry Emu Products is a member of the "Pick Tennessee Products" sponsored by the Tennessee Department of Agriculture and is also a member of the White House, Tennessee Chamber of Commerce.
OUR COMMITMENT TO OUR CUSTOMERS
Our products are produced from healthy, Tennessee farm-raised emus that have been raised on a special formulation of grain-based feed. We do not use antibiotics, insecticides, steroids or growth hormones on our birds. Our birds are raised in spacious pens to optimize growth and to ensure the highest quality of meat and oil. Dino-Meat Company is devoted to humane and environmentally positive practices that will produce beneficial products for society. We are committed to sound farming practices, bringing the consumer quality products to enhance their life. We have personally used many of our products for over 10 years and we guarantee every product that we sell.
For additional information on our company, please call 1-877-557-6493 (Toll Free) or 1-615-643-1022
Updated 07/30/10