Farm Fact: Breed Conservation
As industrial meat production began focusing on only a handful of livestock and poultry breeds in the mid-1900s, our more traditional livestock and poultry breeds became rare and, in some cases, nearly extinct. In 1997, The Livestock Conservancy conducted a census of heritage turkeys and found only 1,335 breeding birds in the whole US. Thanks to The Livestock Conservancy’s and Slow Food’s […]