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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Labour’s official parliamentary spokesman for shooting and angling, Martin Salter, signalled the new post-Hunting Act mood when he wrote in Labour’s 2005 document, Charter for Shooting: ‘As a political party, we want to go much...
Posted 20 Nov 2007
An East Midlands television programme was screened on 7 November about the cruelty of game bird shooting. Inside Out is a half hour regional current affairs programme which presents matters of public interest.
Posted 07 Nov 2007
Less than three years after parliament banned hunting with hounds, the red carpet was rolled out at this week’s Labour Party conference for the leading figures of a bloodsport that involves the mass production and...
Posted 25 Sep 2007