Food Industry — Thanksgiving

USask research helps keep your poultry happy from farm to Thanksgiving table SASKATOON – As Thanksgiving rolls around in the United States, Americans will gobble up nearly 46 million turkeys over the holiday long weekend, just as Canadians devoured 2.5 million of the birds on this occasion in October.   In fact, Canadians consume nearly seven million turkeys as well as more than 730 million chickens annually, while the comparable U.S. tallies are 224 million turkeys and more than nine billion broiler chickens per year. For Dr. Karen Schwean-Lardner (PhD) and her research team at the University of Saskatchewan (USask)...