Turkeys=food

From the vaults of the Mr. Obvious Show, and not to destroy the suspense, the patient host of the radio program points out to the seemingly befuddled caller that one must kill a turkey before one tries to cook it in an oven, unless you are a po faced erstwhile PETA supporting tofurkey eater :



From the Presidential archive, pointing out the facts of life to pardoned turkeys seems to be a Republican tradition, as per Gerald Ford showing his recently pardoned turkey that he narrowly escaped becoming the main course in a Thanksgiving dinner:



Mark Steyn surmises the exercise was a masterful lesson in economics:

"When the government decides it can 'pick winners' and spare them from the realities of the market, everyone else gets bled to death."