Turkeys can't screw.

[trof]

It's a fact.
(Just finished reading Barbara Kingsolver's "Animal, Vegetable, Miracle...A Year of Food Life".)
http://www.animalvegetablemiracle.com/

Your standard Butterball Kroger's turkey came into being as a result of artificial insemination.
Generation after generation.
They're bred for out-sized breasts.
To the point that some just fall over and can't get up again.
But the turkey factories keep feeding them.
yummy

Anyway, your Thanksgiving turkey don't know how to reproduce any more.

I think that's kind of sad.
:-(

[YDogg]

1. I came here for the "out-sized breasts," and I'm not disappointed.

[trof]

3. Ain't nuthin' wrong with bein' a 'tit man'.

Doesn't make you a bad person.
:-)

[TZ]

2. The bulldog can't give birth naturally...

Except in really rare cases the puppies heads are so big that they have to be delivered by c-section.
Also domesticated turkeys can't be let out in the rain. They will look up and drown as the rain falls unhindered down their throats.

[YDogg]

5. reminds me of mike the headless chicken

http://www.miketheheadlesschicken.org/gallery/celebrity_mike.html

[Ptah]

10. snopes disagrees.

http://www.snopes.com/critters/wild/turkey.asp

[TZ]

11. Hmm

Well I watched a show on Discovery where a domestic turkey farmer said that can happen...

[Ptah]

13. Then it must be true.

[Suich]

4. I just saw that on Dirty Jobs a while ago.

Mike Rowe first "extracted" the semen, then inseminated the females.

Ugh!

:)

[Godhumor]

8. First Dirty Jobs I saw where Mike had to give a disclaimer at the end

Disturbing and rather amusing watching Mike try to do that job.

[Bucky]

6. Are they looking for a donor?

I'm just kidding. Unless the answer is "yes". In which case have them PM me.

[LeftyMom]

7. Photo comparison

This is the kind of turkey raised in a factory farm. They all are the same variety, from the same species, and have almost no genetic variation. He's sweet, and likes to be petted. He comes when called. He and his brothers were found, abandoned, in a box behind a livestock auction, when they were only a few days old. He lives at a sanctuary, and won't be a meal.



This is a wild turkey. He also lives at the same sanctuary. He was left at their gate. He's not going to be anybody's dinner, either.

[meow2u3]

9. If turkeys can't screw

then why do so many fundies have large families? :shrug:

[Elidor]

12. I won't eat this stuff they call turkey today

Butterballs are atrocious. Loaded with garbage and nasty tasting. The deli style stuff ain't much better. Organic tastes completely different. Too bad it's so steep. I can seldom afford it.

[Flaxbee]

14. It is sad. I don't eat meat anymore, for many

reasons, but a lot of them are in that book. Corporations and the profit motive destroy everything, you know?

But - did you like the book? I LOVED it; and her description of trying to figure out what the heck was going on with the turkeys, and what the French call them (dindon sauvage = savage ding dongs) had me in stitches. When I wasn't feeling sad, that is.

[Schema Thing]

15. kick, for the turkeys