{"id":91323,"date":"2009-11-25T13:52:21","date_gmt":"2009-11-25T18:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetsave.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/25\/happy-thanksgiving-turkey-facts-as-a-tribute-to-those-who-gave-their-lives-for-our-stomachs\/"},"modified":"2009-11-25T13:52:21","modified_gmt":"2009-11-25T18:52:21","slug":"happy-thanksgiving-turkey-facts-as-a-tribute-to-those-who-gave-their-lives-for-our-stomachs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/91323","title":{"rendered":"Happy Thanksgiving: Turkey Facts as a Tribute to Those who Gave their Lives for our Stomachs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/planetsave.com\/files\/2009\/11\/turkey.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5043\" src=\"http:\/\/go635254.s3.amazonaws.com\/planetsave\/files\/2009\/11\/turkey.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Whether you are eating turkey or tofurkey this Thanksgiving, you cannot deny the great\u00a0sacrifice\u00a0that turkeys are making to fill dinner plates across the nation. I figured I would honor their\u00a0sacrifice\u00a0here on the eve of thanksgiving, with some fun turkey facts.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>More than 45 million turkeys are eaten in the U.S. at Thanksgiving (one sixth of all turkeys sold in the U.S. each year). American per capita consumption of turkeys has soared from 8.3 pounds in 1975 to 18.5 pounds in 1997. Ten years later, the number has dropped slightly in 2007 to 17.5 pounds (more tofurkey?)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/planetsave.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/25\/happy-thanksgiving-turkey-facts-as-a-tribute-to-those-who-gave-their-lives-for-our-stomachs\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more of this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/planetsave\/com?a=sEzpd9Ad7_Q:WR_n5cH5Tt8:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/planetsave\/com?i=sEzpd9Ad7_Q:WR_n5cH5Tt8:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/planetsave\/com?a=sEzpd9Ad7_Q:WR_n5cH5Tt8:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/planetsave\/com?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/planetsave\/com?a=sEzpd9Ad7_Q:WR_n5cH5Tt8:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/planetsave\/com?i=sEzpd9Ad7_Q:WR_n5cH5Tt8:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/planetsave\/com?a=sEzpd9Ad7_Q:WR_n5cH5Tt8:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/planetsave\/com?i=sEzpd9Ad7_Q:WR_n5cH5Tt8:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/planetsave\/com\/~4\/sEzpd9Ad7_Q\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whether you are eating turkey or tofurkey this Thanksgiving, you cannot deny the great\u00a0sacrifice\u00a0that turkeys are making to fill dinner plates across the nation. I figured I would honor their\u00a0sacrifice\u00a0here on the eve of thanksgiving, with some fun turkey facts. More than 45 million turkeys are eaten in the U.S. at Thanksgiving (one sixth of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":582,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/582"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}