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It's time to talk turkey

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Published 11/10/09

To buy a more expensive locally raised turkey or a cheaper bird injected with hormones and antibiotics? That may be the question for some cash-strapped consumers this Thanksgiving.

Paul W. Gillespie — The Capital Instructor Leo Pruissen begins to debone a turkey at My Butcher and More in Annapolis.  Consumers are shelling out as much as $4 a pound for locally raised turkeys this Thanksgiving.
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Although price will always be the deciding factor for some, area butchers say they are busy taking orders for local turkeys that can cost in the neighborhood of $4 a pound.

"The demand is there," said Mike Smollon, owner of My Butcher & More butcher shop on Forest Drive in Annapolis, who typically takes 80 percent of his turkey orders the week before Thanksgiving.

But customers have already placed 60 orders for the vegetarian-fed...

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