The turkey you're about to eat weighs twice as much as it did a few decades ago
- Turkeys have gotten much bigger than they were half a century ago.
- To meet growing demand, American turkey farmers began to breed birds for their size and speed of growth in the 1950s.
- Today, the average turkey weighs around 30.5 pounds, almost twice as much as it did in the 1960s.
The turkey on your Thanksgiving table this week probably won't look anything like it would have decades ago.
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