Animal Aid

To ___________________________________MP

Re: EDM _________________

I am writing to ask you to add your signature to an Early Day Motion, tabled by David Taylor MP, which calls for a ban on the production of birds for sport shooting.

Every year, more than 45 million pheasant and partridges are mass-produced for wealthy ‘Guns’, who may pay up to £1000 for a day’s shooting. Birds who are shot at but not killed, will suffer a slow, lingering death, whilst others who escape the guns will inevitably die from predation, starvation or under the wheels of cars. Of the birds who are shot and killed, many are buried in specially-dug pits because there is so little demand for their meat.

The EDM states:
That this House notes that every year in Britain around 35 million pheasants and six million partridges are purpose-bred in cages, sheds and pens so that they can be released and shot for sport; is concerned about the suffering endured by these birds and by the large number of indigenous wild mammals and birds that are trapped, snared, poisoned and shot to protect this activity; is alarmed by the thousands of tons of leadshot and plastic casings discharged annually by live quarry shooters, and also by the disruption caused to native wildlife at the start of each shooting season when the millions of pheasants and partridges are released; and calls on the Government to bring forward legislation at the earliest opportunity to prohibit the production of birds for sport shooting, in line with the ban introduced in Holland in 2002.

Please lend your support to this important EDM.

I hope to hear from you soon.

Yours sincerely

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