DeLong Smackdown Watch for June 14, 2010: Robert Waldmann on the Fauna of Animal Farm

Hoisted from comments:

Robert Waldmann: There were no turkeys on the animal farm. You are suffering from US centrism (I would write Walnut Creek centrism, but at least you didn't claim that the animal farm was threatened by a bobcat). The word appears only once in the book:

http://www.msxnet.org/orwell/animal_farm

and then in the lyrics of "Beasts of England" where, in a plain sop to livestock internationalism, an exotic beast is mentioned clearly to...