I’m with you. I understand there is a foodchain and we are all in it, but I don’t understand sadism.
The locals were claiming “turkeys can fly”. Yes-—WILD turkeys. And even wild turkeys are not long distance flyers. They can make it to the top of a tree, not much further. The highly bred domestic turkeys are so breast-heavy that they can hardly walk. They develop painful arthritis of their leg joints. They can’t even breed naturally without harming the hen, so they’re all AI. Thus, you cannot possibly say that the commercially bred turkeys they throw out of a plane have much of a chance at a safe landing in this ridiculous practice. It’s barbaric, inhumane, and just plain stupid.