I think Washington was one cool guy. He could have been a respected Maggid if born and raised in a different place. On turkeys, I did some reading that raised alarms in my poor head. The modern bird, like its chicken cousin is raised in time and conditions to be mass market profitable. This means a chicken from hatch to market can take no more than seven weeks. The turkeys obviously take somewhat longer, but still rushed so that the weight gain outstrips other critical development, and this leads to a not insignifigant number of birds with underdeveloped circulatory and nervous systems relative to the weight ( non walking and heart attack prone). They are also bred to be front heavy, and due to this, they cannot mate normally, production is completely dependent on AI. I asked a rov about the possible treifa safek, and he did not dismiss it as of zero concern. You would assume that the kashrus operator would screen out sickly specimens, but in the modern mechanized high speed rotary set up with the birds hanging, (and perhaps hung up by a stam worker, is there not room for errors and concern?
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