Turkey--America's bird

We've all heard the story: Benjamin Franklin, lamenting the approval of the bald eagle as our national bird, would have preferr the turkey "The turkey is a plenteous more respectable bird," he said, "and withal a actual original native of North America." Who's to say if the quiescence of the country had agreed with Franklin, that we wouldn't be eating a nice, juicy bald eagle at Thanksgiving feast? Well, probably not.

No doubt the turkey occupies its have place in the hearts of greatest in quantity Americans--but one most likely not to the turkey's liking. Instead of emblazoning its