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Wednesday, November 24, 2010
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Sherri and Bill Battles with a large Standard Bronze Tom Heritage turkey
It’s all about taste: Farm breeding rare turkeys WESTPORT, Mass. (AP) — Bill and Sherri Battles know the best way to save their rare red, gray and brown turkeys is to eat them. Owners of a 25-acre farm in Westport, Mass., the Battles are among a small but growing number of farmers raising breeds of turkey with bloodlines that date back centuries yet are quite different — in size, taste and price — from the vast majority of birds sold at today’s supermarkets. Known as “heritage� turkeys, their survival may well hinge on Americans’ willingness to create a market for them by putting them on their Thanksgiving tables. “These are breeds that in order to keep them from becoming extinct, farmers have to raise them and people have to be willing to try them,� said Sherri Battles, 44, as her husband placed a feed bucket in front of a gobbling gang of Narragansett, Bourbon Red, Chocolate and
other heritage turkeys on a recent November day. Domesticated breeds such as these were consumed for generations, but by the 1960s they began to be pushed aside in favor of the Broad Breasted White, a commercial breed developed to yield a meatier breast. The Broad Breasted White reaches maturity in half the time as older breeds, making it cheaper to raise, cheaper to sell and creating lucrative markets for deli meat, ground turkey and other byproducts. The National Agricultural Statistics Service estimates that nearly 242 million turkeys will be produced in the U.S. in 2010. Heritage birds make up only a tiny fraction. Few major supermarket chains sell heritage turkeys, so few Americans have actually tasted them. Those who have generally note the birds have more dark meat and a flavor distinct from commercial turkeys.
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — A swaying bridge loaded with thousands of people sparked mass panic and set off a raging stampede that killed more than 350 people in Cambodia’s capital, according to a government investigation. Crowds celebrating a water festival had flocked to an island for a free concert Monday and spilled onto a bridge to the mainland before the panic took hold. Bayon TV, which serves as a mouthpiece for the government, reported today that a committee found many people on the span were from the countryside and unaware it was normal for a suspension bridge to sway. In their fear it was collapsing, they tried to run off. Information Minister Khieu Kanharith said today the official death toll was 351 dead with 395 injured, though one government ministry said it could be more then 450.
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America’s Lake Tahoe are warming significantly and the most, said study coauthor Simon Hook, a scientist at the Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, Calif. Tahoe has heated up by 3 degrees (1.7 degrees Celsius) since 1985, while Ladoga has been even hotter, going up by 4 degrees (2.2 degrees Celsius). The study was published today in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.
Irish unveil 4-year plan to claw back $20 billion DUBLIN — Ireland has unveiled the harshest budget
U.S. student makes Italy court appearance PERUGIA, Italy — Amanda Knox returned to court today for a brief hearing that marked the opening of an appeals trial for the American student convicted last year of murdering her British roommate. The hearing lasted only 15 minutes, as the presid-
ing judge agreed to adjourn the case until Dec. 11, when the jury will hear a summary of the first trial and the requests for appeal. The 23-year-old Knox returned to the same coed courtroom where in December she burst into tears as she was handed the conviction for sexually assaulting and murdering Meredith Kercher, and a 26-year prison term. Escorted by a policewoman, a crowd of cameramen and photographers awaiting her, Knox walked across the courtroom and took her usual seat at a desk between her two lawyers. A policeman stood guard behind her.
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WASHINGTON — A firstof-its-kind NASA study is finding nice cool lakes are heating up — even faster than air. Two NASA scientists used satellite data to look at 104 large inland lakes around the world and found that on average they have warmed 2 degrees (1.1 degree Celsius) since 1985. That’s about 2 1/2 times the increase in global temperatures in the same time period. Russia’s Lake Ladoga and
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measures in its history, a four-year plan to claw back $20 billion using spending cuts and extra taxes. The plan hopes to cut $13.3 billion from spending and raise $6.7 billion in extra taxes to combat Europe’s worst deficit.
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