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Pilgrims, The Plymouth, pumpkin pie, stuffing, veggies, and college football… what am I forgetting?  Oh right!  The mutant turkey!  While you southern friends celebrate Thanksgiving (we already had ours last month), why not sit and reflect as tryptophan flows through your veins how Butterball looked for love.

Turkey used to be a special occasion food, but now there are sandwiches, soups, sausage, ground meat, etc..; so the ugly-faced bird has gobbled into our diets quite rapidly.

To combat this boom in demand turkey producers had to genetically select for breast size combined with higher daily gain to market birds sooner.  However, the beefed turkey was now too big to do something very important.  Reproduce.

The producers neglected to realize that an increase in breast meat would interfere with the courting and mating of the tom on the hen.

So now when it times for next year’s turkeys to exit our ovens, its predecessor will have a date with a restraining stand, inverted cloacae, and a plastic tube.  Now that’s something to be thankful for?

Too bad artificially increased breast size didn’t cross species into humans… no more babies for Britney.

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