NEW LONDON -- Josh Proehl's high school summer science project of searching for a natural probiotic by examining the good bacteria in turkey guts will be part of the world's largest international ...

But first things first. Today, here at the plant at Philadelphia's Naval Business Center, the experimental feedstock is turkey processing-plant waste: feathers, bones, skin, blood, fat, guts. A ...

The nightmare: the stomach-turning smell from processing the turkey waste that sometimes clouded the town. Now the problem and the promise -- which once attracted worldwide attention -- may be over.

Turkey is a popular source of meat in the United States. In 2023 alone, people in the U.S. ate 4.96 billion pounds of turkey. That works out to about 14.8 pounds per person. It’s also twice as much as ...