Animal Aid’s undercover footage from the 2008 game bird shooting season
More information about pheasant and partridge shooting
Posted 23 Dec 2008
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The Game Drain: How millions are spent on producing a food that is worth a fraction of its production cost
As the ‘gamebird’ industry steps up its efforts to promote the ‘sport shooting’ of birds as a wholesome and natural means of food production, a damning new report reveals the massive squandering of resources and...
Posted 15 Dec 2008
Watchdog bites the Lady
Ultra-posh purveyors of country fare, Daylesford Organic – run by Lady Carole Bamford, the wife of eye-wateringly wealthy JCB boss, Anthony Bamford – has fallen foul of the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA). The watchdog branded...
Posted 28 Nov 2008
Bloodlust: Images that reveal the shooting industry’s dark secrets
As the ‘gamebird’ shooting lobby tries desperately to sell its ‘sport’ as a branch of the food industry, fresh images from this year’s shooting season expose the cruelty and wastefulness of this bloodsport.
Posted 21 Nov 2008
Government welfare body attacks ‘gamebird’ battery cages
The government’s official advisory body on farmed animal welfare has today launched a devastating attack on the systems used to mass-produce pheasants and partridges for ‘sport’ shooting. The Farm Animal Welfare Council (FAWC), in its...
Posted 13 Nov 2008
Shooting gets another pat on the back from its favourite ‘scientific research’ body
A new study by the Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT) concludes that only 34 per cent of pheasant nests in the wild are successful. (A successful nest is considered to be one where at...
Posted 13 Nov 2008
Anti-Shooting Week tour – a brilliant response
Animal Aid's first ever National Anti-Shooting Week (22-28 September 2008) was tremendously successful and well-received – largely down to the enthusiasm and commitment of Animal Aid supporters across the country. With our mascot, Phileas the...
Posted 30 Sep 2008
Shooting industry in the dock
A 19-year-old gamekeeper who caught badgers in an illegal trap and then clubbed them to death has been spared jail. Kyle Burden, who also illegally shot buzzards, was sentenced on September 19 by Telford magistrates...
Posted 22 Sep 2008
Pro-bloodsports government policy exposed in National Anti-Shooting Week
Animal Aid is staging its first National Anti-Shooting Week (22-28 September) to highlight the extreme cruelty involved in the breeding and shooting of ‘gamebirds’. Our new mascot – Phileas the Pheasant – will be visiting...
Posted 10 Sep 2008
Animal Aid targets pro-bloodsports government with Weekend of Action
During the weekend of 15-16 December, supporters of national campaign group Animal Aid, will take to the streets of their local cities and towns to highlight the government's backing for the bloodsports lobby. Street stalls...
Posted 23 Nov 2007