Talk:Broad Breasted White turkey

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The pardoned turkeys may have died, but not due to obesity. Actually, their muscles grow so fast, the supporting tissues and organs can't keep up, thus joint problems and heart problems. Since they are bred for slaughter at a young age, this is not a problem.Gigemag76 (talk) 15:39, 7 June 2012 (UTC)

Point taken, but as I recall, obesity is defined at least on a legal level (I know that medical officials may differ) solely by weight in relation to height (and/or, in a turkey's case, length) and not by cause; see, for instance, body mass index and its associated controversies. While I'd certainly agree that the cause of the unusually heavy size in humans (i.e. excess fat storage generally from an imbalance of diet and exercise) and poultry such as the Broad Breasted White (breeding to produce oversized muscles) are much different, the effects are largely the same. J. Myrle Fuller (talk) 22:42, 7 June 2012 (UTC)

BMI is defined by weight vs. height, but not obesity (or see http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0004552/Gigemag76 (talk) 01:19, 15 June 2012 (UTC)