Conscious Consumption

Ben Franklin may have loved turkeys, but it turns out he didn’t actually want them to be America’s national bird.

It's a natural part of a turkey's mating ritual - the males are facing off to establish the dominate Tom in the flock. They size each other up and seem to mirror one another's m...

Home cooks may be hot for all those premeasured ingredients, but how do farmers feel?

Almost every turkey sold in the United States was bred to develop a grotesquely large chest. But there’s a more human way to raise a holiday bird. Here’s how.

Wild turkeys might seem innocent, but they can actually have a pretty big attitude. As the Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs states: "Wild turkeys ...

The menu that day doesn't have all that much in common with the staples of a modern one.

Good news and bad news, overall.

This is not a good time to be an immigrant farmworker.