Tropical Traditions

Press Release

Tropical Traditions announced this week that they will soon be shipping their 2015 pastured turkeys raised on pastures in Wisconsin.

This year’s batch offers something new: the specially formulated Cocofeed that the birds consumed was not only soy-free this year, but also corn-free, and tested for the presence of GMOs and glyphosate.

Late last year (2014) Tropical Traditions announced that they had discontinued several USDA certified organic products after testing them and finding residue amounts of glyphosate, the active ingredient in the most common herbicide in the world. (See: ALERT: Certified Organic Food Grown in U.S. Found Contaminated with Glyphosate Herbicide.)

Tropical Traditions began testing all of its products, and also tested its certified organic feed used to feed their pastured chickens and turkeys. They were quite surprised to find high amounts of glyphosate in the USDA certified organic feed they were using, purchased from an organic feed mill. So they began a long process of sourcing all of the ingredients themselves and testing each one first for the presence of glyphosate.

Due to the problem of most of the USDA certified organic corn supply to also be contaminated with genetically modified DNA, they decided to stop sourcing corn altogether.

This past summer Tropical Traditions saw fewer fatalities among their turkey flocks, and the first batch of birds raised on a glyphosate-tested and GMO-tested feed is now available for ordering just ahead of the busy upcoming holiday season.

To learn more, and to find out how to order these turkeys and have them delivered to your home, visit GrassFedTraditions.com.