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Food News 2009

posted on October 13, 2009

Turkey wars

'When you're confined ... things spread easier'

By: Margaret Webb
Published: Oct 10 2009
Source: The Star

If you're eating organic turkey this weekend, savour it, because by next Thanksgiving it may be easier to buy crack cocaine in Ontario than a drug-free bird.

Here's why: While the turkey industry marketing board tells growers to confine their turkeys indoors to reduce the chance of transmission of viruses from wild birds, new organics standards administered by the Canadian Food and Inspection Agency mandate raising organic birds outdoors.

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