{"id":248,"date":"2006-12-11T15:02:14","date_gmt":"2006-12-11T15:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp_genova\/?p=248"},"modified":"2006-12-11T15:02:14","modified_gmt":"2006-12-11T15:02:14","slug":"food_for_though_1-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/food_for_though_1-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Food For Thought &#8211; Talking Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"lightbox\" href=\"\/images\/various\/turkey_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Turkey_1\" height=\"203\" alt=\"Turkey_1\" src=\"\/images\/various-small\/turkey_1.jpg\" width=\"200\" border=\"0\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 5px 5px 0px\" \/><\/a>This week on Food For Thought, I talked turkey with three researchers who say you should think more about where your Christmas turkey comes from.&nbsp; To listen to the 6-minute documentary as an mp3 file, click <a href=\"\/files\/fft-dec13-06.mp3\">here<\/a> .&nbsp; &nbsp;Most of the turkeys raised in Canada stay within their own provincial borders for processing, so you are fairly assured a Canadian bird you buy for Christmas is relatively &#8216;local&#8217;.&nbsp; But non-organic birds are raised in higher concentrations with a smaller genetic pool and are fed anti-biotics as part of their diet, according to Dr. Art Bomke, a professor in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.landfood.ubc.ca\/\">Land and Food Systems Faculty<\/a> at the University of British Columbia.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"lightbox\" href=\"\/images\/various\/bomke.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Bomke\" height=\"133\" alt=\"Bomke\" src=\"\/images\/various-small\/bomke.jpg\" width=\"200\" border=\"0\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 5px 5px 0px\" \/><\/a>Professor Bomke, shown here, as well as Land and Food Systems doctoral students Yona Sipos and Liska Richer, were originally interviewed about turkeys and sustainable food systems for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.publicaffairs.ubc.ca\/ubcreports\/2006\/06apr06\/foodsystems.html\">this edition<\/a> of <em>UBC Reports<\/em> at Thanksgiving, but certainly their thoughts on these issues are valid any time of year.&nbsp; If you want to listen to our entire conversation, you can check out my latest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dongenova.com\/shows_podcast.html\">All You Can Eat<\/a> podcast called Talking Turkey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week on Food For Thought, I talked turkey with three researchers who say you should think more about where your Christmas turkey comes from.&nbsp; To listen to the 6-minute documentary as an mp3 file, click here .&nbsp; &nbsp;Most of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/food_for_though_1-7\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-for-thought"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}