[GeronL]

Without Thanksgiving, I bet turkeys would be extinct

[jazusamo]

I agree, they’re ugly but sure taste good once or twice a year:)

[Pontiac]

“makes light of the mass slaughter of some 46 million gentle, intelligent birds.”

Obviously these people have never met a domestic turkey. Inbreeding has produced a bird that could not survive if returned to the wild. The breast got bigger and the brain atrophied.

Not to mention that the birds can no longer mate. The male’s breast are too large to permit it to mount the female.

These creatures could not exist in the wild. They were bread specifically for slaughter. Released to the wild they would be dead in week. They can not fly and can barely walk. Easy prey for the slowest of predators.

[Rio]

Turkeys revenge:

http://boston.cbslocal.com/2012/11/21/turkey-complaints-on-the-rise-in-brookline/

[Katiana Kalashnikova]

Without Thanksgiving, I bet turkeys would be extinct.

46 million turkeys is nothing. 30 million chickens are slaughtered every day in the US alone! Yum.