SIXTH TURKEY EXTINCTION FEARED IF CLIMATE BORES BALK AT THANKSGIVING BOAR

THE WASHINGTON POST 

Climate change has officially arrived at our Thanksgiving tables. 

As the past year has made even more clear, the consequences of a warming world have challenged farmers and food systems throughout the United States...

In the Northeast, the fastest-warming region in the country, cranberries are budding earlier, making them more vulnerable to frost damage. And in the Southeast, intensifying hurricanes, driven by warming oceans, are forcing farmers to move turkeys northward to drier ground... To mitigate the effects of global warming, we need to change agricultural practices. But food is already changing because of the warming climate..

“You can bet that under climate change scenarios, corn, cranberries, leafy greens like creamed spinach [and] turkey — all of these commodities are going to be constrained,” said Jessica Fanzo, professor of global food and agricultural policy and ethics at Johns Hopkins University...

So what does this mean for the future of our Thanksgiving tables? Let’s start planning the feast, First, the centerpiece

Feral pigs, also known as wild boar... have rapidly expanded across at least 35 states
 because a lack of natural predators and an ability to adapt to a multitude of climates. As a holiday showstopper, wild boar could take the form of a whole roast or a decadent ragu, as is custom in Tuscany. 

Turkeys of the future could come from a lab instead of a farm..