According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, more than 45 million turkeys are cooked and eaten in the U.S. at Thanksgiving-that's 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.
In 2002, retail sales of turkey was approximately $3.6 billion. Forecasts for 2008 expect sales to reach $4.3 billion.
675 Million lbs ?
According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Americans consumed roughly one-third a pound of duck in 2003, compared to nearly half a pound in 1986.
There are thousands of pumpkin pies that are consumed on Thanksgiving each year. It is estimated that there are more than 10 thousand pumpkin pies consumed on Thanksgiving weekend .
House is the place where all the agriculture product were consumed and the agriculture is the field where we repay for what we consumed..
More than 232 million were consumed in the United States in 2008. They estimate that 46 million of those turkeys were eaten at Thanksgiving, 22 million at Christmas and 19 million at Easter.
According to the US Department of Agriculture, there are approximately 45 million turkeys eaten each Thanksgiving. That is about 1/6th of all turkey's sold throughout any given year.
On Thanksgiving, 675 million pounds of turkey are consumed.
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None, Thanksgiving is a holiday unique to America... Pligrims? :P
690 million lb of turkey each year, on thanksgiving.
Agriculture is the basis of most of the food consumed throughout the world.
Roughly 46 million turkeys are consumed in the US on Thanksgiving Day each year.