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SS: Ever since 1922, we at Tucker Take-Out Turkeys have been dedicated to providing big tender meaty birds pre-cooked for America's holiday table. (TURKEY) We're proud of the Tucker Take-out Turkey tradition with every Tucker turkey we send to market, and especially we take pride in our Tucker total-free-range turkey. (TURKEY) At other turkey farms, the term "free range" means a turkey raised in a larger cage, but at Tucker, we believe that "free range" means free range. Every Tucker's turkey has been taken on trips, and no turkey who wanted to leave has been prevented. And when it comes time for Tucker's take-out turkeys to take the long walk up the ramp to the Tucker turkey truck, no coercion was used. And so when you bring out your roast turkey on Thanksgiving Day, your conscience can be clear: you're not serving a victim of torture and oppression, you're serving a proud bird who enjoyed rewarding relationships with others of its species, travelled, had a family, and who saw Thanksgiving as an attractive career choice. A Tucker Take-Out turkey.
© 1997 Garrison Keillor