"Organic" Is The Latin Word For "There's One Born Every Minute"

I'm in the wrong business.

They grow turkeys in s**t???

Did they chase them down on $90,000 thoroughbreds with diamond encrusted saddles to slaughter?

Well there's 101.95 reasons not to eat organic!

One Hundred One

Oh my God, it took me a while before I saw the price.

In Calgary, there's lots of people who will buy it.

This year, for something different, I've been searching far and wide for an inorganic turkey. So far, no luck.

|Are they Grade A?
Fools and their money are soon parted.

Think I'll stick with pheasant under glass.

Nothing compared to Toronto golf course prices for 'free' range balls.

In a phoenix burger joint I asked 'what is the difference between the regular and the deluxe (besides the $2). He proudly said "It's organic". I promptly regarded "I hate organic, I'll take the regular". I must say, the reaction from the young burger-order taker was amusing. His shock was so evident, I would not doubt I left an emotional scar.

I just bought a (frozen) Grade A non-organic turkey of similar size for less than 12 bucks. An identical-sized bird would cost $12.90. The change from that $102 bird would buy the wine, the veggies, the dessert and there'd still be change left over. The stupidity is stunning!

At that price, I'll stick with the inorganic turkeys.

Suck-ersssss!

You must have to have a gubmint job to afford that!

I kill and eat WILD turkeys and they taste just like the big fat Butterballs in the supermarket.

Bon appetite. This has got to cut into NDP/Lieberal fundraising efforts.

Holy turkey dinner Batman. Safeway in Calgary is selling "regular" turkey at $0.99 a pound.
I wonder how many of those will be going on deep discount next week. I also wonder how much of that $101.95 is actually going to Winter's turkey farm.

I bet that flake vegan in the Drama Queen Studies linked on here yesterday would not approve of either price.

What's an "inorganic" turkey? One with a prosthetic wing?

Hapless Dave cooks the turkey - Starts @ the 15:00 minute mark...

http://www.digitalpodcast.com/feeds/20039-cbc-radio-vinyl-cafe-stories?page=6

Ah not only is it "organic" it's also "heirloom" Whatever that's supposed to mean, other than collecting more cash from earth muffins who don't have a clue what it means either! 'But it's a "heirloom" turkey honey, they were only $7.50 a pound!'

The difference in flavour and texture between pasture turkeys and caged turkeys is night and day. But $16.51 per kilogram is gouging. Pasture turkeys in Toronto are not nearly that expensive. (I get pasture turkeys that are not organic.) Mind you, I ordered in advance and a lot of farms are saying they sold out of pasture turkeys a couple of weeks ago, so maybe Coop is exploiting a local shortage.

At $0.99 per pound, I seriously wonder about the provenance of the bird.

I knew a fella who was real taken with "heirloom/legacy" plants.....which he came and planted in my garden (GTA apartment dweller).

Then one day he came up with this phenomenal, real nutritious veggie, optimized for salads.....it was "lambsquarters"........WEEDS.....

Then I noticed a coincidence with my pain meds declining with his visits....I saved his life....he prudently has stayed well away.

That's more expensive than a Turducken!

Free range turkeys do taste better - a richer flavour, and the bones make a nicer stock. But that price is ridiculous. Hopefully the bird was at least given a bit of beer each day to drink!

I am beginning to think that people who work in marketing are some of the smartest in terms of understanding human nature.

Just picked up my .79 cents a lb. utility turkey at Walmart (%16.59) . This bird when properly cooked will taste every bit as good as that $102.00 organic bird.

The pricing computer has it wrong.
Those organic turkeys are costly but not that bad.
And they do come standard with 50% more gullible, which is good.

That is supposed to be the price for hallal thanksgiving ostrich.
Big bucks because they are quite a handful on the slaughter line.

We'll be eating a Coop Gold Canada Grade A turkey that cost $3.42/kg ($1.554/lb). I'm sure that properly cooked (and we have a couple of foodies in our group that will make sure that happens), it will taste very delicious.
Winters will sell you a frozen turkey that was raised "humanely with high consideration for their comfort, health and well being" for $8.40/kg if you order online.
My recollection (subject to correction), from limited experience around turkeys years ago is that they are so stupid they wouldn't notice if they were comfortable or not.
The Coop must have to throw away a lot of unsold 16 dollar birds if they require that price for a fresh one.

I'll go up to buddies farm and BOOM...........real cheap pasture bird:-)))

A question I always put to grocery clerks promoting such scams is How can the turkey be organic (living) as it is already dressed and oven ready, i.e. dead? Similarly organic lamb, beef etc.
Fine if gullible souls feel better about such bargains, let them purchase it. But clerks have been conditioned to act surprised when you demand the "unorganic" product whatever it may be. One of my favourites is organic lentils.

I know a fellow who raises "free range" chickens...in barns the size of hockey arenas. He can call them "free range" because they are not in cages. But they are separated in stalls with maybe 50 birds per stall.

Apparently they don't do as well or grow as fast as caged hens. Too much stress. When there are only five or six in a cage pecking order is established, understood, and maintained very quickly. However, with 49 other bills to worry about instead of 4 or 5, the poor dears don't know when and where the next thrashing is going to come from.

There was a novel that came out a few years back called "King John of Canada". Through a series of coincidences some schlep becomes King and fixes things with Quebec, the Indians, etc.

Anyway, one of the accomplishments of the new king was to convince Canadians to eat Canada geese for Thanksgiving, which helped solve the problem of goose (aka pigs with wings) overpopulation.

It's supposed to be a winter turkey? It isn't winter until December, summer just ended September 21.(date?)
Spring still begins in March 21, groundhog or not.

Thats pretty pricey. Still and all it might be better than the low ball butterball idea of buying whatever is cheapest. You are what you eat after all. Why not compromise and buy something less expensive but also not factory raised and processed god knows where? By the way, that post about free range chickens being more stressed is the silliest thing I have read in a long while.

I'll stick with the utility turkey for $0.95/lb because it doesn't matter about the turkey or how you cook it: it's all about the side dishes!
http://youtu.be/foA0MGUbYH0?list=PL5EA53D6A501C2AF0

Organic is simply a tax on gullible rich people and or chemophobia in general.

I've eaten organic turkeys, but they came with several shotgun pellets installed in them.p4r44a

the wife gets em from Winters direct. pays maybe $40 / 10lb bird
one for thanksgiving, one at Christmas

sick o turkey by new years.

Good for the producer if he can command high prices! Good example of successful marketing.

God Bless the farmer who hopefully is reaping the profit from this.

Actually someone raised a good point, is that thing Halal? I think I need to file a human right's complaint. I have noticed most grocers hide the halal logo under the price label on purpose but that bird looks Western to me - only multi-cultural birds allowed in Canada please, especially at a $100.

Same size bird at Superstore (Kelowna) last week $12.90.
It always amazes me that people that can afford a $102 turkey are also stupid enough to buy one.

Ha! I posted a link to this photo as a comment to a Canadian friend living on the US who was enjoying a visit to his home country.

FB is apparently slapping the domainname of where any photo resides over images posted these days.

So the above photo shows with a prominent label: SMALLDEADANIMALS.COM

Took me a moment for it to sink in :-)

"...being a successful farmer means knowing the market opportunities and providing what the customer wants...."

let me finish that sentence for ya

"...and in the case of dairy and poultry products, relying on monopolistic supply-management systems that (a) eliminate the possibility of true open-market competition, and (b) screws consumers in the super markets.