How Christmas goose and Christmas turkey switched places: the economics and agriculture behind changing holiday traditions.
Keeping with the festive theme for the rest of the week, here’s a video that explains the history and science behind the traditional carol, “Christmas Is Coming, the Goose Is Getting Fat.”
This is very much a Talking Heads–style clip (except for the plucking scenes, which might actually be a bit too vivid for some viewers), but Sarah Taber is one of the sharpest commentators on the vitally important but woefully undercovered topic of agriculture, and she always has something insightful and well-informed to say on the subject.
I’m going to start introducing our readers to some of the YouTubers I find entertaining and educational. Between AI slop and content farms, it is getting increasingly difficult to separate the wheat from the tsunami of chaff, but the platform still has a tremendous number of smart, hard-working people putting out tons of great videos.
And here’s some bonus content: Taber giving an excellent analysis of why farmers thought it was rational to support Trump even though they fully believed his tariff policies would do serious damage to their businesses.
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