Research Document: Ostrich Meat | From Indigenous Resource to Commercial Commodity in South Africa Research Document: Ostrich Meat ( Struthio camelus ) From Indigenous Resource to Commercial Commodity: A South African Case Study Research Context: This document examines the profound transformation of ostrich from a wild, sporadically hunted animal to a farmed, globally marketed "healthy" red meat. It analyzes the resulting tensions between traditional cooking knowledge and modern culinary prescriptions, using the provided source material as a primary example of this conflict. I. Historical & Cultural Shift: From Veld to Feedlot The narrative of ostrich meat exists in two distinct temporal layers, often conflated in marketing but critically different in cultural substance. Pre-Colonial & Early Colonial Period: The ostrich was a resource among many for indigenous San an...