{"id":13315,"date":"2015-11-22T09:00:38","date_gmt":"2015-11-22T14:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=13315"},"modified":"2015-11-23T09:20:47","modified_gmt":"2015-11-23T14:20:47","slug":"the-economics-of-turkey-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2015\/the-economics-of-turkey-prices\/","title":{"rendered":"The Economics Of Turkey Prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/112215_1940_TheEconomic1.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"641\" height=\"457\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Thanksgiving is coming up. Anna Lipin used the opportunity to examine turkey prices:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Feeding turkeys can make up as much as 70% of a turkey&#8217;s production costs.<\/li>\n<li>This is especially true for pasture turkeys that are free to frolic about. Their increased activity means that they need twice as many calories as their factory farmed brethren.<\/li>\n<li>Turkey farms also have to pay for freezers. Your turkey may say that it is fresh and was never frozen, but according to industry standards as long as it wasn&#8217;t chilled below 10 degrees it wasn&#8217;t frozen.<\/li>\n<li>Despite all this though turkeys are a loss leader for a supermarket \u2013 you pay less than what it cost the store to buy it.<\/li>\n<li>This is because supermarkets know that you&#8217;ll also buy items like potatoes, cranberries, stuffing, and butter \u2013 and they jack up those prices to increase margins.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"http:\/\/luckypeach.com\/why-do-turkeys-cost-what-they-do\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/luckypeach.com\/why-do-turkeys-cost-what-they-do\/\">Lucky Peach<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanksgiving is coming up. Anna Lipin used the opportunity to examine turkey prices: Feeding turkeys can make up as much as 70% of a turkey&#8217;s production costs. This is especially true for pasture turkeys that are free to frolic about. Their increased activity means that they need twice as many calories as their factory farmed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13314,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/112215_1940_TheEconomic1.gif","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13315"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13326,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13315\/revisions\/13326"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}