22-11-2017 01:58 via deseretnews.com

Photos: Grateful for governor's Thanksgiving pardon

Grateful the turkey walks around after being pardoned for Thanksgiving by Gov. Gary Herbert outside the Capitol in Salt Lake City on Tuesday. Grateful, a 40-pound Tom turkey who was raised by the Tad and Sara Steadman family in Sanpete County, will live out his life at the Thanksgiving Point bird refuge in Lehi. According to the Utah Department of Agriculture and Food, the average Utahn consumes 17 pounds of turkey per year, and enough turkeys were raised in 2017 to supply each resident with 45
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