Today's domestic turkeys are genetically distinct from wild ancestors, researchers find
Tuesday, November 20, 2012 - 08:31
in Health & Medicine
(Phys.org)—No Thanksgiving dinner is complete without a succulent roasted turkey. The U.S. Department of Agriculture estimates that consumers cook and eat more than 45 million turkeys every Thanksgiving. Very few Americans, however, know much about the difference between their gravy-smothered poultry and the poultry that earlier generations of Americans ate to celebrate the holiday.