(Brief background for the non-American readers: tomorrow is a national holiday called Thanksgiving. A turkey feast is the traditional offering.)
Slate has a wonderful article on how they manage to have so many turkeys ready at one time (The Turkey-Industrial Complex). The most popular turkey is the White Broad Breasted Turkey which has been bred for large size. So large, in fact, they are unable to reproduce; the species is kept around by artificial insemination (WARNING: some of you may not enjoy this video very much)
As a bonus, here’s MSNBC mocking Palin during some turkey pardoning event. She’s doing an interview while turkeys are being terminated in full view in the background.
Enjoy your turkey, people.
It kind of reminds me of Fargo ( the Palin video). I saw that the other day ( I had a better link that didn’t block out the execution part)…. and I couldn’t help but think this something out of a bad Monty Python skit. The turkey processing guy, mugging for the camera in the background is priceless.
Pass the giblets.
Gobble, gobble! Do turkeys lay eggs? LOL
@Blunderprone: I wish MSNBC didn’t censor the killing part so we’d have the best of both worlds (some of those captions were funny). I did put a link to uncensored version below the video if you need it.
@Polly: They do, but the genetics are different from the eggs we hire for LEP.