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On Tuesday, November 21, 2017, President Trump pardons the\u00a0National Thanksgiving Turkey in the 70th anniversary of the National Thanksgiving Turkey presentation. Pictured are images of turkey pardons from past presidents<\/a> of the U.S.<\/p>\n Don’t tell anyone, but selecting the turkey is a political process in which turkey growers around the nation vie for the publicity and bragging rights.\u00a0 California is one of the nation’s largest turkey growers<\/a> and our turkeys have been selected<\/a> previously, but not this year. The 2017 turkey(s) come from\u00a0 Western Minnesota under the supervision of National Turkey Federation Chairman and five young women from the Douglas County 4-H chapter.<\/p>\n The National Turkey Federation also brings two turkeys from Jaindl\u2019s Turkey Farm of Orefield, Pennsylvania, for the First Family to donate to non-profit Martha’s Table in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n After the pardoning, the 2017 turkeys (one star, and one back-up,)\u00a0 join last year’s turkeys at Virginia Tech Gobblers Rest exhibit, where students and veterinarians care for the turkeys. One year the pardoned turkeys were shipped to California to live out their lives in Disneyland<\/a>. We took pictures of them in a fenced area near the Mad Tea Party ride and they\u00a0definitely looked out of place, even though it is called The Happiest Place on Earth!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On Tuesday, November 21, 2017, President Trump pardons the\u00a0National Thanksgiving Turkey in the 70th anniversary of the National Thanksgiving Turkey presentation. Pictured are images of turkey pardons from past presidents of the U.S. Don’t tell anyone, but selecting the turkey is a political process in which turkey growers around the nation vie for the publicity […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24736"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}