[jocon307]

Bush’s fault!

[Hotlanta Mike]

[dfwgator]

“I’m really good at killing turkeys.”

[donmeaker]

Turkeys grow fast, and leave a tasty corpse.

They just don’t live long, no matter what. I myself wouldn’t demean the pardon by extending it to a turkey, but rather would direct the white house kitchen to properly execute the bird and then prepare the very tasty corpse for proper disposal. (Yum!)

[Nifster]

All but one...Ocare

[Haiku Guy]

If you like your head... you can keep your head!

[Tijeras_Slim]

President Nessman

[dforest]

Many Americans are doomed just as those turkey birds.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***Cobbler, 2012’s official pardoned turkey, lived through the summer and was euthanized on Aug. 22***

Euthanized? Is that a new term for processing into meat? I’ve euthanized many a hog and chicken, and others have euthanized cattle which ended up in the freezer.

[The Sons of Liberty]

All Of President Obama’s Pardoned Turkeys Are Dead

0bamacare Death Panels at work?

[pabianice]

Euthanized due to old age. Obirdacare.

[Boogieman]

The interwebs tell me the lifespan of these things is 10 years... so I’m guessing they are only sending the old geezer turkeys in to get pardoned. Otherwise, why would they need to get euthanized so soon?

These birds probably had zero chance of ending up on the dinner table in the first place.

[Revolting cat!]

PERIOD!

[fella]

Commercial birds are breed and maybe genetically modified for maximum and fast growth. They just keep growing until their little hearts can’t keep up. We picked up a few chicken truck escapees and they live a bout a year and die when they’re about the size of a medium turkey.

[Haiku Guy]

If enough people died so that I suddenly became President, I would insist on a longer-lived variety of turkey. Maybe a heritage bird or a wild turkey might live a few more years.

[Lazamataz]

All Of President Obama’s Turkeys Are Dead

I thought this would be another Obamacare article.

[mbarker12474]

But with a simple declaration by King Obamessiah, they can all be returned to life. If you like your turkey you can keep your turkey.

[Vigilanteman]

Table turkeys aren't bred to live long. My Dad was both a veterinarian and a contracted state inspector for slaughterhouses in Minnesota, which is the leading producer of table turkeys in the nation.

There is so much meat bred into them that they aren't even capable of normal poultry copulation. Their eggs have to be fertilized by artificial insemination.

Chances are better than 50-50 that a table bred turkey which survives Thanksgiving and Christmas will die of naturally causes by the next year. Heart attacks are one of the most frequent causes of death, probably second only to encounters with sharp edges.

. . . which is why turkey pardons are strictly for theatrical purposes.

[a fool in paradise]

Cobbler, 2012’s official pardoned turkey, lived through the summer and was euthanized on Aug. 22. …

Death paneled.

[Venturer]

Give the Turkey to one of the Homeless shelters in DC to feed to the Homeless.