Tell Yellville to Stop Dropping Turkeys from Airplanes
Action Alert from All-Creatures.org

FROM

UPC United Poultry Concerns
July 2017

ACTION

As far back as December 1989, the National Enquirer called the Yellville, Arkansas “turkey drop” a “sick Festival of Death.” The Yellville turkey drop is an October event in which live turkeys are forced out of planes flying 500 to 1,000 feet above ground. The fun is to make the turkeys suffer by tossing them out of a plane. The fun is to watch them free-falling in midair until they hit the ground or get tangled up in wires and tree branches. The fun is to chase the birds who didn’t die and subsequently kill them.

Sign an online petition: URGENT: Ask Sponsors to Ditch Support for Cruel ‘Turkey Drop’!

And/Or better yet, make direct contact:

Please contact Yellville’s Mayor and Chamber of Commerce directly:

Yellville Chamber of Commerce
414 West 3rd Street
Yellville, AR 72687
(870) 449-4676
Send an email - [email protected] 
Contact Yellville Chamber of Commerce members

Mayor Shawn Lane & other local officials/contact information:
Contact Yellville City Officials

INFORMATION

The promoters like to joke that these turkeys “can fly”; however, wild turkeys would not normally fly that high above ground. Moreover, for a bird, the decision to take off from the ground or a branch or other platform is totally different from being pitched involuntarily from a MOVING machine high in the air in the midst of terrific wind pressure produced by the plane, to plunge to wherever the traumatized bird happens to land.

TURKEY DROPPER: Mountain View pharmacist Dana Woods defends dropping turkeys from his airplane. "It brings in a lot of money," he told the Democrat-Gazette.

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