Photo by Lisa M. Hamilton

"Sometimes when I explain what we do people look at me like I'm a monster," said Catherine Thode, one of the project's organizers and mother of the two youths who raised this turkey. "I see it differently. We've raised these birds from day one, we know everything they've ever eaten, and we know that right up to their last breath they were never once mistreated. If you're going to eat meat, well, I think this is the way it should be done."

Lisa M. Hamilton documents an attempt to bring back traditional poultry farming in
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