Product Warning - Presage Farms charges - Turkey Price for Gravy

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Product Warning - Presage Farms charges - Turkey Price for Gravy

Story was from February 27, 2023 -
every Monday they feature a questionable or deceptive practice : Mouse Print* – Exposing the strings and catches buried in the fine print.

As usual their turkey is Injected. Inspected, Detected, Dissected, and Selected ...
( remembering the fine fellows on the Group W Bench ...)

This Turkey Is Bulked-Up With Liquid
Injected with approximately NINETEEN PERCENT of a solution.
(Solution Ingredients: Turkey Broth, salt and spices.)

And now for even more fine print: WITH GRAVY PACKETS

The customer (aka victim) paid TURKEY price for ONE AND A QUARTER POUND OF GRAVY.

The Turkey Breast package weighed 6.28 pounds,
Minus 1.19 pound of Solution ( aka Turkey Broth )
Now we have 5.09 pounds.
But, Wait there is even more 1,25 pound of gravy
Now we have 3.84 pounds of turkey breast meat.
Only 61% of the total weight.

From Persage Farms web page they mention - INTEGRITY :
Family-owned, industry-leading, and dedicated to continuing our legacy of integrity and innovation in pork and turkey production.

They mention - INTEGRITY the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles; moral uprightness

Verily I sayeth to thee: As the LARGE PRINT giveth, the small print taketh away.

Bekeart

Many years ago I lived near another poultry processor that also deserved no respect for their practices. (they shall remain un-named here)
 
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A true experience. For Thanksgiving 2001 we bought a whole 25 pound frozen turkey at WalMart. At the time it was on sale for around a dollar per pound, maybe 97 cents. After cooking and removing all of the edible meat, there was only 7-1/2 pounds of it. Less than one-third of the original bird was edible meat, at a cost of about $3.25 per pound. The rest was water, fat, and bones. That was the last whole turkey we bought, and probably was the last one we will ever buy. We did that test mainly as a scientific experiment and were careful in doing it.

Check out ham. It also is usually pumped up by 15% or so with water. That information may or may not be shown on the label, if there is one.
 
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This is why they dry corn before selling it or the buyer discounts it for moisture content. Moisture is heavy. Try throwing a wet bale of straw.

I never liked the idea of a gravy packet and a pound of giblets stuffed inside the turkey. I always believed it was just to pump up the overall weight at the checkout.
 
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