Random Barbaric Festivals That Should Be Banned For What They Do To Animals (14 items)

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  (#5) The Turkey Drop in Yellville, Arkansas

  During the Turkey Trot festival in Yellville, Arkansas, a real live turkey is thrown from an airplane like a soaring projectile. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) even got involved in this one but, surprisingly enough, the turkeys aren't actually considered to be projectiles.

  Turkeys have been flying from airplanes in Yellville for 50 years, and they have no intentions to stop this horrifying activity any time soon.
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  (#13) Running of the Bulls (San Fermín Fiestas), Spain

  In Pamplona, the Running of the Bulls is a famously long withstanding tradition as part of the nine-day San Fermin fiestas. The bulls are stirred up and incensed before being let loose in the streets. As they set off in a raging panic down the cobblestone streets, festival-goers encourage the frenzy by hitting them and beating the bulls as they run alongside them.

  Afterwards, the bulls are brought into arenas for bull fights, where matadors lead them to their eventual death. Although both people and bulls die during these events, it is still a cultural celebration in 2017.
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  (#1) Grindadráp In The Faroe Islands

  An island tradition known to turn the ocean red with blood, Grindadráp is a festival that uses boats to round up unsuspecting, migrating whales and herd them to shore - where they eventually meet their merciless slaughter. As the pods become stranded ashore, the attendees grab them, bring them ashore, and slice their throats.

  While conservation societies attempt to prevent locals from participating in the slaughter, the tradition is protected by law. Activists protesting the bloody "festivities" have been arrested and their boats confiscated.
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  (#12) Krakelingen In Geraardsbergen, Belgium

  A withstanding part of Krakelingen is the slurping down of live fish. Soaked in red wine, the fate of these fish is denounced by animal rights activists as a cruel one, since the fish dies an agonizing death, essentially being thrown into a vat of toxic waste before its consumption.

  While the drinking of fishes hasn't stopped completely, the amount of fish being drank has been reduced to around two dozen, and animal rights campaigners hope to eventually replace the fish with a substitute, such as a fish-shaped marzipan.
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  (#8) Goose-Pulling In Lekeitio, Spain

  On The Day of the Geese, a greased goose is strung up by its neck with a rope out in the middle of the water, and festival participants, jump, grab on to this goose, and hang on for dear life while they're continuously bounced into the water like a sadistic bungie chord. The goal of the person hanging on is to decapitate the goose by whatever means possible while being sprung up and down in the water. Using a number of geese, participants are judged on how quickly they can rip the head off. 

  This used to take place with live geese, until it was ended by pressure from animal rights activists in 2005. The current event uses geese that have been humanely killed, however, the geese are not eaten.
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  (#10) Festival Of The Ox (Farra Do Boi) In Brazil

  Brazil's Festival of the Ox is no party for these oxen. During this twisted event, the oxen are starved and routinely tortured until their eventual deaths. Drunken villagers mutilate the animals in cruel and inhumane ways, by punching, kicking, beating them - even going as far as to stone them, rub their eyes with hot peppers, and set them on fire. 

  Although outlawed by the Supreme Federal Court of Brazil in 1997, Santa Catarina officials have failed to stop the activities. 

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