Posted on 11/25/2015 12:48:09 PM PST by ThomasThomas
If Trump is elected president do you think he will pardon the Thanksgiving Turkey. It has a recent practice among presidents to pardon a for Thanksgiving. But even as I child I was sure they still ate Thanksgiving day.
Would Putin hold such a tradition if Russia had one.
Do you think Trump would hold on to this tradition? It is said to date back to Truman but was really tradition till about Kennedy. Anyone have a better history?
He’d oughta wring its neck on live TV and hand it to a rep from the local food bank.
He’d fire the Turkey. :P
He’d kill and sell it with proceeds going towards our 20 trillion dollar debt :)
By the way, my Italian grandfather used to cut its head off in the yard... :)
Elect Carson, problem solved.
only after waterboarding it first, and entering its name on the Turkey Registry./sarc
It’s a stupid “new” tradition that needs to be ended.
Unless you’re abstaining from eating turkey, you ain’t pardoned it.
Ben - U Are Horrible. I love it!
My wife will roast one of the ones whose call from the supreme court came in too late... 3 two-leggers, (wife, soon, me) 3 four-leggers (2 standard poodles, and a fat gray cat) will all celebrate an avian who gave his life to help others enjoy the day.
My wife will roast one of the ones whose call from the supreme court came in too late... 3 two-leggers, (wife, soon, me) 3 four-leggers (2 standard poodles, and a fat gray cat) will all celebrate an avian who gave his life to help others enjoy the day.
SNIP
Ronald Reagan in 1987 was technically the first president to use the word "pardon" about a turkey, but it was really just a way to deflect questions about the Iran-Contra scandal and whether he would pardon key players involved — Oliver North and John Poindexter. The bird, "Charlie," was already headed for a petting zoo, but after Sam Donaldson of ABC News pressed Reagan on whether he'd pardon North and Poindexter, Reagan responded, "If they'd given me a different answer on Charlie and his future, I would have pardoned him."
Two years later, George H.W. Bush formalized the turkey pardoning ceremony, giving birth to the modern-day tradition.
5. What happens to the turkey afterward?
This is where the story turns very sad. They are sent to a farm in Virginia, where a former governor raised his own turkeys, but they do not live very long. In fact, every pardoned turkey is dead except for two — "Cheese," the second half of last year's duo ("Mac" died in July of this year), and "Courage," pardoned in 2009.
These birds, though, are bred to be eaten. Many industrially grown turkeys are fattened up with a protein-rich diet of corn and soybeans. They can't fly, because they are too big; their bone structures can't hold up all that weight for very long; and their organs fail if they're kept alive too long.
These unfortunate facts have been a sore point for animal-rights activists, like People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, better known as PETA, which listed its complaints, including noting the fates of the recent "pardoned" birds. Others, including writers at the Washington Post and Vox, have called the pardon "America's dumbest" and "most absurd holiday tradition."
But the turkey federation, of course, pushes back on that notion.
"Think of the meaning of Thanksgiving," argued Keith Williams, vice president for communications and marketing at the turkey federation. "It's always been about the presentation of the National Thanksgiving Turkey — symbolic of the blessings of agriculture we have in this country. It becomes a time for the president to recall with the nation our blessings and celebrate the beginning of the holiday season."
Yes I feel certain Trump will pardon the Turkey. :-)
It would be refreshing to see a politician not grant the turkey a pardon. Every pardoned turkey was replaced by another unfortunate turkey who ended up on the dinner table.
As kind as Trump is, he would probably pardon them all....I don’t think he could do anything but that...
Would Putin microwave the Thanksgiving Turkey?
I don’t think so. Look at this beautiful 50 ponder. Ah I gonna love eating you. Chomp!
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It has a recent practice among presidents to pardon a for Thanksgiving.
It has a sentence structure fail what you mean.
But even as I child I was sure they still ate Thanksgiving day.
If they ate a day.. they are a GOD
The GREATER Evil!
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