“turkey ham” is: turkey, not’ - ham, arid the turkey industry.”

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Fock producers have. said i ina ‘fede

ral suit, ° - “Turkey is turkey and ham |

is: ham and that’s that,” said

George Hamilton, president

of the Smithfield Packing

Co., -Inc., a Virginia ‘ham producer.

“Smithfield, five other

_pork-producing - firms and

Norfolk Seantly, in an ‘effort: to” stop’ the turkey. “industry from using | the label

‘ “turkey ham.”

The ‘ham ‘producers said the term confuses the public

and falsely - conjures the |

‘image of a bizarre hybrid “with feathers and a snout that roots in the mud while gobbling. ,

“Turkey ham, ” which is ‘cured turkey thigh, ‘resembles a boneless ham.

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generic term and the pork industry cannot claim it

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