tasteofhome.com dispatched and gutted. Fine story in the New York Someone has to cut the oil Times today about the gland out of the tail. Necks Butterball plant in Ozark, and gizzards and livers have which, with another plant in to be cleaned and stuffed the state, produces about a into a cavity. During a six- third of the zillion turkeys week period that begins in to be eaten in the U.S. this October, the line runs seven week. Veterans of the turkey days a week to process fresh bagging line give their free turkey. It is a period people holiday turkey to relatives, in town simply refer to as opting for ham, after “fresh,” and it is grueling. watching thousands pass “It’s a long battle when before them every day. The we’re working fresh, but I at article quotes women who've least got some bills paid and worked on the line for 17 Christmas money,” Mrs. Farmer years (now making $11.40 an said. “I just sit there and hour): hum and sing and talk to my It is not easy work. Turkeys friend Willie. We get through need to be stunned and it together.”
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