Richard Huisinga, Chairman of the National Turkey Federation, holds on to the 2011 Thanksgiving Turkey, Liberty, during a Turkey Pardoning ceremony attended by U.S. President Barack Obama on the North Portico of the White House in Washington November 23, 2011. Since 1989 every U.S. President has pardoned the Thanksgiving Turkey. REUTERS/Jason Reed (UNITED STATES – Tags: POLITICS SOCIETY ANIMALS)