I really wonder what happens to the pardoned White House turkeys the following Thanksgiving? Is that a pardon for life?
@sfleetucker As short as that life may be at that point, I'm guessing so.
@XaoslordErie @sfleetucker Yep, they get to go off to a no-kill farm and frolick in the hills.
Somewhere upstate?
@sfleetucker @XaoslordErie *looking it up*
OMG I didn’t expect it to be this convoluted! 🤣
“ For many years the turkeys were sent to Frying Pan Farm Park in Fairfax County, Virginia. From 2005 to 2009, the pardoned turkeys were sent to either the Disneyland Resort in California or the Walt Disney World Resort in Florida, where they served as the honorary grand marshals of Disney's Thanksgiving Day Parade. *thread*
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Westmoreland Davis.[16] Virginia Tech has housed the turkeys from 2016 to 2019;[17] Virginia Tech was chosen because of the college's poultry science program, and the National Turkey Federation wanted to begin a tradition of cooperation between the turkey industry and universities.[18]
After four successful years at Virginia Tech, the alma mater of the chairman of the NTF at the time, the federation chose to begin
housing the turkeys at universities closer to the turkeys' home towns.[19] The 2020 turkeys were sent to be housed at Iowa State University,[20] the 2021 turkeys reside at Purdue University[21] and the 2022 turkeys will live at North Carolina State University.[22]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Thanksgiving_Turkey_Presentation
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*thread*
In 2010, 2011 and 2012,[15] the turkeys were sent to live at Mount Vernon, the estate and home of George Washington; Mount Vernon stopped displaying and accepting the turkeys due to the fact that they violated the estate's policy of maintaining its own historical accuracy (Washington never farmed turkeys). The 2013, 2014 and 2015 turkeys were sent to Morven Park in Leesburg, Virginia, the estate of former Virginia governor (and prolific turkey farmer)