The Butterball Effect

The turkey market is in turmoil, so says The Economist. The annual supply of 40 million turkeys is ready for the chopping block (or has already faced it), but big family gatherings are out this year. Meanwhile, Denmark is culling 17 million mink, for fear that the coronavirus they carry could make human vaccines less effective. And the number of wildfires in Brazil’s Pantanal region, home to thousands of species of birds, mammals, and fish, has reached a record high.

So much for those springtime feel-good images of “nature reclaiming the planet.”