HM Revenue and Customs have announced that they are closing in on the shooting industry, as a result of evidence of 'tax irregularities occurring across the country'. The agency will be making unannounced visits to...
Posted 27 Apr 2006
Around 50 per cent of the 35 million pheasants reared on Britain's shooting estates originate from intensive farms in France. With the arrival of Bird Flu in France, pro-shooting lobby group the British Association of...
Posted 21 Feb 2006
A recent edition of Shooting Times magazine carried a three-page article on Britain's 30 Most Wanted Pests. These are animals who interfere with the production of 'gamebirds' and fish for so-called sport shooting and for...
Posted 01 Feb 2006
The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has today ruled (December 7) that the Countryside Alliance (CA) made untruthful and unsubstantiated claims in its attempt to promote the alleged benefits of game shooting.
Posted 07 Dec 2005
Animal Aid welcomes the decision by the leading shooting lobby group to go head-to-head with the main game production body over the question of battery cages for breeding gamebirds.
Posted 23 Nov 2005
As the 2005 shooting season rapidly approaches, a new report by national campaign group, Animal Aid, uncovers a new and sickening development within the gamebird rearing industry: battery cages.
Posted 06 Sep 2005
Animal Aid has achieved a major breakthrough in our five year campaign to ban all 'sport' shooting.
Posted 29 Jan 2005
After the hunting ban comes a call to end the breeding of pheasants for 'sport shooting'.
Posted 01 Dec 2004
Guilty, as charged, of "abusing millions of captive birds"
Posted 21 May 2003
Andrew Tyler exposes the financial scams at the heart of the pheasant industry. We call it 'The Capone Factor'. The US authorities couldn't get underworld figure Al for murder, so they put him away for tax...
Posted 01 Oct 2002