The Perfect Thanksgiving Music, Sung by One Human … and 300 Turkeys

I don’t want to get into semiotics of the annual turkey pardon (Justin E.H. Smith, a philsopher at Montreal’s Concordia University, did that much better last year anyway), but let me suggest that there are better ways of humanizing turkeys than incorporating them into our criminal-justice system (not known for its humanizing effects). There’s even a better — a more festive, convivial — way to humanize them while still celebrating Thanksgiving with them.

That way, of course, is singing with them. Singing with turkeys.

Click to listen. [Image: Reuters]

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