Talking turkey: the Thanksgiving supply chain

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It is Thanksgiving today, which means we will have few American readers, mainly because they are likely to be far more busy eating turkeys – some 45 million are expected to be eaten today; an impressive display of the country’s appetite for fowl, especially given the fact that the average weight of a turkey has risen from 6kg in 1929 to 13.6kg today! [On the basis of which, The Economist calculates that in just 150 years turkeys will be same ...