七面鳥を湖に漬けないで　感謝祭前にグレートソルト湖管理局呼び掛け

【ロサンゼルスＡＦＰ＝時事】今年の感謝祭の２８日に向けて米国で大勢の人々が盛大なごちそうで祝う準備をする中、西部ユタ州にあるグレートソルト湖州立公園管理局は、同湖に七面鳥を漬けないよう呼び掛けている。（写真は、米ユタ州のグレートソルト湖〈資料写真〉）
　これに先立ち職員は、グレートソルト湖に浮かんでいた七面鳥を発見。何者かが七面鳥の肉を柔らかくしようと塩水に浸していたとみられている。
　公園管理局はＳＮＳに、「毎年恒例のお知らせです。グレートソルト湖の塩水に七面鳥を漬けないでください」「肉を塩水に浸す処理としては塩分が濃過ぎるだけではなく、非常に強い波が起きることもあるので、この方のように七面鳥を丸ごと失う可能性が高いです」と投稿。
　包装されたままの七面鳥に草や泥が付着している写真を添えている。
　グレートソルト湖は、世界最大級の内陸塩水湖の一つ。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2024/11/28-17:00）

As hundreds of millions of Americans get ready to celebrate Thanksgiving with a huge feast, park managers are warning budding chefs not to brine their turkey in Great Salt Lake.
The admonition came after workers in the Utah park found someone's bird that had floated off, apparently while they were trying to tenderize it ahead of Thursday's festivities.
Just your annual reminder not to use Great Salt Lake to brine your turkey, Great Salt Lake state park wrote on its social media feed this week.
Not only is the salinity too high for a proper brine, the waves can be very strong and there's a good chance you could lose the entire turkey as this person did.
The post was accompanied by a photo of a bird's carcass -- still bafflingly wrapped in its store-bought packaging -- and covered with bits of grass and muck.
Great Salt Lake is one of the largest landlocked bodies of salt water in the world.
Human activity is putting an enormous stress on the lake, which is a vital tourist draw for the region.
In 2022, water levels in Great Salt Lake plummeted to their lowest on record due to a combination of overconsumption by the farming and mining sectors, and a two-decade drought.
The water became so salty that brine shrimp, a major source of income for the local economy, began to die.