Posted on 10/14/2017 7:45:14 PM PDT by Rebelbase
Further information:
The domestic turkey lost its ability to fly through selective breeding that created heavier, broad-breasted birds, a feature much desired by chefs and commercial turkey producers. The shorter legs of the domestic turkey also mean it can’t run as well as its wild cousin.Domesticated vs wild turkey.
The separation of the wild and domestic turkey began hundreds of years ago. Native Americans had accomplished the domestication of turkeys before Europeans set foot on the continent. Turkey bones have been found in Indian burial mounds in Tennessee, Kentucky and some other parts of the South, and turkeys were being raised in Mexico and Central America for more than 500 years before the Spanish arrived. Turkey relics have been found in Arizona dating as far back as 25 A.D., and turkey-raising may well be one of the oldest forms of organized meat production in the Northern Hemisphere.
Spanish explorers took Mexican wild turkeys domesticated by the Aztecs home to Europe in about 1519. The turkey then spread rapidly through Europe and was introduced in England between 1524 and 1541, where they were highly sought after for gourmet dinners.
After the domestic turkey spread across Europe in the 1500s, the colonists who settled the New World brought these tasty birds with them across the Atlantic to the land of their origin. Imagine the pilgrims’ surprise to find the turkey already one of the most plentiful foods of the American Indians.
Domestic stock from Europe was eventually crossbred with the wild turkeys of North America, leading to the six standard domestic varieties in the United States: Bronze, Black, Narranganset, Bourbon Red, Slate and White Holland.
But Ruth said because domestic turkeys lack the “wood smarts” of their wild cousins, they generally fall prey to a host of hungry predators such as bobcats, foxes or coyotes before getting a chance to breed with native birds.
http://www.dnr.sc.gov/news/yr2013/nov21/nov21_turkey.html
****Is that the sort of dominion over them that we have been given****
You mentioned that it was cruel and evil. I asked which of God’s laws was broken that made it evil. Don’t change the subject...answer the question.
Cruelty to most folks is evil.
You choose your own special definition if you’d like.
Most folks don’t understand who has defined evil, let alone care.
You’ve got your interpretation of what is evil and is not—many a bible-believing folk see animal cruelty as evil and read a biblical admonition against it.
No person can define evil, it has already been done by God who comprehensively wrote laws that define evil. Murder, theft, not loving thy neighbor as thyself...these are evil things. Please quit conflating that which is crass and that which is evil, there is a difference.
Animal cruelty is not merely crass.
You are the one who needs to be reintroduced to the English language.
****Animal cruelty is not merely crass.
You are the one who needs to be reintroduced to the English language.****
Oh excuse me oh holier than thou one. Are you done virtue signaling yet?
Responding to your ignorance on this thread, aimed at me, is not “virtue signalling”.
Yes, it is.
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