Your Thanksgiving Dinner

[Big Ol' Smitty 0]

Of the 400 million turkeys Americans consume each year, more than 99 percent of them are a single breed: the Broad-Breasted White, a quick-fattening monster bred specifically for the industrial-scale setting...If a Broad-Breasted White should escape slaughter, it likely wouldn't live to be a year old: they get so heavy, their legs collapse. In mature form they're incapable of flying, foraging, or mating...

 

...So how do we get more of them? Well you might ask. The sperm must be artificially extracted from live male turkeys by a person, a professional turkey sperm-wrangler if you will, and artificially introduced to the hens, and that is all I'm going to say about that.

 

Barbara Kingsolver, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle

 

Routinely, methodically, the breakers and the inseminator did this over and over, bird by bird, 600 hens per hour, or ten a minute. Each breaker "breaks" five hens a minute, or one hen every 12 seconds. At this speed, the handling of birds has to be fast and rough. It was the hardest, fastest, dirtiest, most disgusting, worst-paid work we have ever done. For ten hours we grabbed and wrestled birds, jerking them upside down, facing their pushed-open assholes, dodging their spurting shit, while breathing air filled with dust and feathers stirred up by panicked birds.

 

Singer & Mason, The Way We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter.

 

You may use this as a general Thanksgiving food related thread.

[the max 0]

Turkey. Turkey sandwiches.

[Cheech Tremendous 0]

Professional turkey sperm-wrangler

 

 

That's a new poster name if I've ever seen one.

[CanadianGuitarist 0]

Mine was shepherd's pie - a lot of the kids don't like turkey. The ironic thing is that my Dad always hated shepherd's pie as a kid. Circle of life, I guess.