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As you may know, Thanksgiving is the unofficial holiday of the Club for, ahem, Growth (you'll understand why at around seven o'clock Thursday evening). So to help members appreciate this most American of holidays, we offer this unofficial report on the Gobble Domestic Product:
According to the U.S. Census, there are roughly 250 million turkeys in the United States, clocking in at more than 7 billion pounds (mmm... leftovers), about one fifth of them in Minnesota.
All told, American turkey farmers expect to gross about $3.8 billion this year selling their birds.
Free range? How about free trade turkeys? The U.S. will import roughly $9 million in foreign turkeys this year, almost all of them from Canada, thanks to the North American Free Turkey Agreement.
On the side, the United States will produce about 700 million pounds of cranberries, which -- and I did not know this -- are first grown on a shrub and not simply plopped, jiggling, from a vacuum-sealed metal can.
American farmers will produce 1.8 billion pounds of sweet potatos (not counting marshmallows), 1.1 billion pounds of pumpkins, and 794,777 tons of green beans, two-thirds of which American children will leave uneaten.
Your personal share in all this? About 14 pounds of turkey consumed this week... No wait, sorry: this year.
Happy Thanksgiving.
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According to the U.S. Census, there are roughly 250 million turkeys in the United States, clocking in at more than 7 billion pounds (mmm... leftovers), about one fifth of them in Minnesota.
All told, American turkey farmers expect to gross about $3.8 billion this year selling their birds.
Free range? How about free trade turkeys? The U.S. will import roughly $9 million in foreign turkeys this year, almost all of them from Canada, thanks to the North American Free Turkey Agreement.
On the side, the United States will produce about 700 million pounds of cranberries, which -- and I did not know this -- are first grown on a shrub and not simply plopped, jiggling, from a vacuum-sealed metal can.
American farmers will produce 1.8 billion pounds of sweet potatos (not counting marshmallows), 1.1 billion pounds of pumpkins, and 794,777 tons of green beans, two-thirds of which American children will leave uneaten.
Your personal share in all this? About 14 pounds of turkey consumed this week... No wait, sorry: this year.
Happy Thanksgiving.
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Member Comments (2)
