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Fancy Rooster
Timonium Maryland
Being eaten by humans may be a bad thing for an individual animal, but is a great survival strategy for a species. Domestic breeds that are no longer useful to humans as food can face extinction. 99 percent of turkeys raised in the US are of a single breed. In the past 15 years 190 breeds of farm animals have gone extinct. Slow Food U.S.A.’s Ark of Taste and the American Livestock Conservancy promote rare and heritage breeds to preserve the genetic diversity of our food supply and poultry fanciers raise chickens for their aesthetic rather than economic value.