(NBC News) This year’s Thanksgiving feast will likely cost your more.
An outbreak of avian flu in April and May resulted in the loss of seven million turkeys.
Experts say there will still be plenty to go around, mainly because frozen Thanksgiving turkeys had already been processed when the flu outbreak hit.
“When the turkey comes from the farm, it’s taken to be packaged. It’s readied and sealed up, and it is then flash frozen down to 0 degrees,” explains the National Turkey Federation’s Keith Williams.
That won’t apply to fresh birds, however.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is still predicting that because of the outbreak turkey prices might jump as much as 20-percent.
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