DLM Fresh Free-Range Turkey

Dorothy Lane Market was the first store in the area to bring you beef, lamb, pork, and chicken raised the way nature intended. This means animals raised free-range, on a vegetarian diet free of animal by-products; free of added hormones, growth stimulants, or antibiotics. We have a passion for producing and selling the finest products we can obtain. We take great pride in partnering with farmers, ranchers, and processors that share our same beliefs when it comes to raising your food. We believe that animals should be raised in a manner that avoids the administration of antibiotics or growth stimulants at any time. They should be allowed to roam free in a reduced-stress environment and be fed a vegetarian diet. Sad to say, the meat industry, in order to produce more and cheaper food, began the practice of administering antibiotics, hormones, and steroids to livestock and poultry over 30 years ago.

The biggest disservice to consumers has been the practice of adding animal by-products to the feed given to livestock and poultry. These meat scraps, bone meal, and animal fats are cheap, readily available, and a source of cheap protein to add to the feed to speed up the growing process. The whole process had the blessing of the USDA until 1997, when a feed ban on animal by-products in cattle feed was imposed due to the outbreak of mad cow disease. But guess where all the by-products go to now? That’s right — all the commercial feed mills have just added more of them to the pork and poultry feed. There has been discussion of a total animal by-product ban in all livestock and poultry feed, but it will be years before that becomes reality.

So we’ve decided to be pro-active. For the last three years we have been working with our friends at Bowman & Landes in New Carlisle to grow a turkey to our high standards. The first challenge was the feed mixture. Since you cannot find a commercial feed mix that does not contain animal by-products, we had to have a way to make our own feed. Steve Landes (part farmer, part turkey grower, part genius) installed a new computerized feed mill at the farm; so now they could take the corn and soybeans grown there on the farm and mill them into their own feed formulation, using canola oil as the protein. After three years of trial and error, we’ve got it down! This year Bowman & Landes is raising two special flocks of turkeys to DLM’s specifications. Now we would like to introduce you to the DLM Fresh Free-range Turkey! We guarantee this turkey to be:

• Free-range
• Raised without antibiotics
• Raised without hormones or growth stimulants
• Vegetarian-fed – with no animal by-products in the feed
• Locally grown and raised on a small family farm

Dorothy Lane Market and Bowman & Landes have combined forces to produce a turkey that is tender, moist, tasty, and among the healthiest foods available for your holiday table. So all fresh meats we offer at DLM, whether beef, pork, or poultry, have been fed a diet entirely free of animal by-products.