The President of the United States pardons a turkey every year since 1989. They are sent back to the farm, but usually die within a year because being bred for eating they are obese and have health problems.
It has become customary for the President to pardon a turkey at Thanksgiving and send it to a farm or zoo to live out its years.
who was the president that declared Thanksgiving a holiday
who was the president that declared Thanksgiving a holiday
The President
Abraham Lincoln
One turkey .
President Harry Truman in 1947
They give a pardon to a turkey.
Since 1947, the National Turkey Federation and the Poultry and Egg National Board have given a turkey to the US president at a White House ceremony. Until 1989 when President George H. W. Bush officially pardoned a turkey was for the first time, the turkeys were usually treated like any other Thanksgiving turkeys. Since then, these White House celebrities have been given presidential reprieves from their death sentences. Some have been flown to California to act as honorary grand marshals for Disneyland's Thanksgiving Day parade.
no thanksgiving didnt come from turkey because thanksgiving is a holiday in USA
You do so because they ate turkey at the 1st Thanksgiving.
They DO celebrate Thanksgiving in Turkey. They celebrate the same way we do.
Do you plan to serve turkey at Thanksgiving.