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VILE CRUELTY OF TURKEY DROP (Source)
Yellville, Arkansas: Turkeys are dropped from planes in a barbaric ritual celebration
Sunday October 10, 2010
The flailing object being thrown out of this light aircraft is a living creature ...one of dozens to meet their deaths in a sickeningly cruel spectacle every year.
The horrific event does not take place in some Third World country, but in America. It is what passes for “family entertainment” in the small town of Yellville, in Arkansas.
Every year dozens of helpless, live turkeys are thrown 1,000 feet to their deaths from light aircraft on the second Friday and Saturday of October.
The “highlight” of the two-day Turkey Trot festival at the weekend saw the traditional “Turkey Drop”. Dozens of petrified flightless birds were subjected to the terror of being taken up in the air to be flung to their deaths.
The festival was set up originally to advertise the region’s abundant wild turkeys. The main attraction in the early days was the “Turkey Toss”, where live birds were tossed from the roof of the county courthouse.
In the Sixties this was replaced by this Turkey Drop.
Most birds die when they hit the ground. Instant death is the more preferable fate. The few birds that manage to survive the fall are trampled to death by children while their admiring parents look on. If one or two manage to live through that they are chased around the town by jeering locals.
Outraged animal rights groups across America label the practice “barbaric”. The original thinking behind the drop is that most of the turkeys would escape by flying off into the wild and thereby increase the local population. Except, of course, that turkeys cannot fly.
Officially, Yellville has divorced itself from the spectacle by omitting it from Turkey Trot literature, but every year it happens regardless. Local officials claim that mysterious planes just “turn up” over the festival with as many as four or five drops taking place each day.
In response to critics, the local council makes much of the fact that the festival brings hundreds to the town from all over the state, bringing in much-needed income.
Other events at the Turkey Trot include the Miss Drumsticks beauty contest, where townsfolk cover their faces and upper bodies and are judged on their legs alone.
Organiser Travis Doshier, said the events, with food and music, brought out an estimated 1,000 people to the town square.
But it was unclear if he was including the turkey massacre when he added: “There is something for all the family.”
VILE CRUELTY OF TURKEY DROP (Source)
Yellville, Arkansas: Turkeys are dropped from planes in a barbaric ritual celebration
Sunday October 10, 2010
The flailing object being thrown out of this light aircraft is a living creature ...one of dozens to meet their deaths in a sickeningly cruel spectacle every year.
The horrific event does not take place in some Third World country, but in America. It is what passes for “family entertainment” in the small town of Yellville, in Arkansas.
Every year dozens of helpless, live turkeys are thrown 1,000 feet to their deaths from light aircraft on the second Friday and Saturday of October.
The “highlight” of the two-day Turkey Trot festival at the weekend saw the traditional “Turkey Drop”. Dozens of petrified flightless birds were subjected to the terror of being taken up in the air to be flung to their deaths.
The festival was set up originally to advertise the region’s abundant wild turkeys. The main attraction in the early days was the “Turkey Toss”, where live birds were tossed from the roof of the county courthouse.
In the Sixties this was replaced by this Turkey Drop.
Most birds die when they hit the ground. Instant death is the more preferable fate. The few birds that manage to survive the fall are trampled to death by children while their admiring parents look on. If one or two manage to live through that they are chased around the town by jeering locals.
Outraged animal rights groups across America label the practice “barbaric”. The original thinking behind the drop is that most of the turkeys would escape by flying off into the wild and thereby increase the local population. Except, of course, that turkeys cannot fly.
Officially, Yellville has divorced itself from the spectacle by omitting it from Turkey Trot literature, but every year it happens regardless. Local officials claim that mysterious planes just “turn up” over the festival with as many as four or five drops taking place each day.
In response to critics, the local council makes much of the fact that the festival brings hundreds to the town from all over the state, bringing in much-needed income.
Other events at the Turkey Trot include the Miss Drumsticks beauty contest, where townsfolk cover their faces and upper bodies and are judged on their legs alone.
Organiser Travis Doshier, said the events, with food and music, brought out an estimated 1,000 people to the town square.
But it was unclear if he was including the turkey massacre when he added: “There is something for all the family.”
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