Turkeys: Farm to Thanksgiving Table

By Lisa M. Hamilton
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In 2004, Slow Food USA launched a campaign called Renewing America's Food Traditions (or "RAFT"), whose purpose was to save endangered food species by getting farmers to grow them--and consumers to eat them. Members in Sonoma County, California, set out to revive heritage breed turkeys, but immediately faced a new issue: there were no farmers to raise them.

Lisa M. Hamilton documents an attempt to bring back traditional poultry farming in
Turkeys: From Farm to Thanksgiving Table

This article available online at:

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2009/11/turkeys-farm-to-thanksgiving-table/30639/