It’s that time of year again. The Day before Black Friday. Football. The beginning of a week off from school. The big day to be in a room with all the relatives for more than 20 minutes, then recover from the experience. And I think there’s something in there about being grateful for something or other, too.
Okay, we’ll be serious now. It’s Thanksgiving here in the U.S., so of course we’re talking turkey. Heritage breeds, of course. We’re going to share parts of our conversations with five of those who can talk turkey with the best of them. You’ll hear shared experiences from North Carolina, British Columbia, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and New York. We’re all over the map for this one.
The turkey is even more important to us at BYGF, because it’s one of the few domesticated agricultural animals in our production system in the U.S. that actually started on this continent, then was exported everywhere else, instead of the other way around. There is evidence that people have been eating turkey on this continent for the last 3,000 years or so. We’ll be doing that this week as well, just to keep tradition going.
Happy Thanksgiving, world.