WHAT'S INSIDE YOUR THANKSGIVING TURKEY?

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When you're gobbling turkey for Thanksgiving dinner, you might wonder what the bird itself has eaten for dinner. If the farm-reared, supermarket variety, it has likely had a nutritious, computer-formulated ration of corn, soybeans, vitamins, and minerals. Those good diets make turkeys super-efficient converters of feed into meat--gaining a pound for about every two and a half pounds of feed, notes Jeff Firman, a University of Missouri-Columbia poultry scientist.

Meanwhile, wild turkeys eat whatever they can get their beaks on. "Wild turkeys instinctively balance their diets," he says. Domesticated turkeys are not totally inept in this area either. "The domestic turkey, as dumb as it's...

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