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By: Gail

Gail — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:46:17 +0000

This is my second year of purchasing a pastured turkey from a local (sort of) farmer. We go right to the farm to pick it up, fresh, which is half the fun! Last year’s was seriously the best turkey ever. The farmer says her pastured turkey’s are high in CLA, which isn’t present in any other poultry. It costs more, but I know what I’m getting! As a side note, I mentioned to her that our local grocery store was now selling pastured turkeys for around $.04 more per pound than hers. She said the farmers that sell to stores usually get only half of what they charge you for it. So support your local farmer, and buy direct, if you can!

By: Debi

Debi — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 03:18:51 +0000

this is such an unfortunate dilemma. it is easy to cast this vote if you have the money…

By: Debi

Debi — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 03:15:41 +0000

My kids and I had the opportunity to assist in the harvest of our heritage turkey this year… my friend, farmer Linda, raised a handful and we were able to watch them grow up. We can’t wait to experience the first bite from farm to fork. Also going to enjoy farmer Carl’s butternut squash and grandpa’s homegrown parsnips and sweet corn. This is what it’s all about. Thanks for the great recipes and I want to know about those shoe/sock things in the profile picture!

By: Deanna

Deanna — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:36:32 +0000

Call me a softie, but I almost cried reading about the poor turkeys. I am currently not in a financial position where I can just buy grass-fed all the time. I hope I can find some heritage turkeys on sale after Thanksgiving. And if I can’t afford a heritage turkey at Thanksgiving, then I won’t eat turkey. ‘Nuff said.

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By: Trish

Trish — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:27:52 +0000

I was in my local healthy food market today and it was selling Heritage turkeys … for about $140. :O

By: Grok

Grok — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 09:15:24 +0000

The man has a point. Not sure if the turkey is GMO or not… but pretty much everything in a store is also selectively breed or GMO for sure.

By: Aboo

Aboo — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:41:07 +0000

PLEASE, get your terminology right…the Turkey’s are not genetically modified as the moajority of people would understand the term, the variety has been developed over many generations to have desirable characteristics by selectively breeding them. Even your heritage Turkeys are selectively bred – they ARE NOT naturally occurring. Same thing with cows, chickens, sheep, etc. etc. Man has done the same with the tomato. A natural tomato is small green and poisonous. Through countless generations man has selectively bred a big juicy red tomato. Just because something has been manipulated by man, doesn’t make it bad. I would happily eat a free-range Broad-breasted White Turkey but I would never eat a factory farmed bird. If you’re going to tell someone how bad something is for them because of the process used to make it, apply it across the board. You can’t eat your heritage Turkey with one hand whilst eating your genetically modified tomato, potato and pumpkin with the other.

By: Natasha

Natasha — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:37:59 +0000

it really depends on the breed of heritage turkey you wind up with. Some are awesome and some are very very close to wild turkeys which means they have little meat and are a lot tougher. The best heritage breeds in order are Midget Whites & Bourbon Reds (blind taste test through Slow Foods) Narragansetts taste like wild birds and I was told to avoid them. I just picked up my pastured broad breasted bronze which is 19 lbs, meaty and delicious! (I have had this kind before and it was awesome although I do not believe it was a heritage breed)