Animal Aid

Every year, more than 40 million pheasants and partridges are purpose-bred to be used as feathered targets, with hundreds of thousands of breeding birds confined inside metal battery cages.

Labour’s 2005 Charter for Shooting stated that the party wanted to ‘actively encourage’ people to take up shooting, and Labour wanted to initiate policies under which it can ‘develop and prosper’.

More recent statements by key government and party figures confirm that promoting the killing of birds for sport is indeed now government policy.

Take Action:

Please write to your MP, whatever his or her party, to register your disgust with Labour’s promotion of shooting. Also, ask your MP to contact Hilary Benn (Secretary of State for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs) to demand an end to the mass production of birds to be shot for sport.