Eat Them Or Lose Them
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Food lovers are developing a taste for "heritage" breeds ignored by big
farms and nearly extinct
By MARGOT ROOSEVELT
Down a dirt road, amid rolling hills of alfalfa, Larry and Madonna
Sorell's 40-acre spread looks, smells and sounds like any other Kansas
homestead. The weathered wooden farmhouse. The whiff of manure. The
cacophony of grunting, gobbling and bleating. But the livestock at Lazy
S Farms are no ordinary farm animals. Rooting about in the fields are
Red Wattle pigs, a breed thought to have been imported from New
Caledonia in the 1700s and practically extinct until a wild herd
surfaced in Texas. The turkeys are Standard American Bronzes, which
were Thanksgiving fare for more than a century but have now been
reduced to some 950 breeder birds. The lambs are Katahdins, a
subspecies developed in Maine and named for the state's highest peak.
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