Re: PHEASANTS IN THE NEWS Shooting ban on the agenda
From: Dorian (dorafasalo_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 12/03/04
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Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2004 11:40:50 GMT
On Fri, 03 Dec 2004 11:08:38 +0000, Steve Terry
<steveterry@farm-direct.con> wrote:
>http://www.animalaid.org.uk/news/2004/0411time.htm
>
>PHEASANTS IN THE NEWS
>Shooting ban on the agenda
>
>Recent articles in The Times
>http://www.animalaid.org.uk/news/2004/0411time.htm
> and The Big Issue
>http://www.animalaid.org.uk/news/2004/0411bigi.htm
> signal that pheasant shooting is now clearly on the political agenda.
>The coverage follows the publication last month of Fowl Play,
>http://www.animalaid.org.uk/pheasants/fowlplay.htm
> Animal Aid's shocking new report which makes the case for a ban on
>the mass production of pheasants for 'sport shooting'. Fowl Play
>reveals, for the first time, the grim lives of breeding pheasants
>inside a giant, state-of-the-art egg production unit. The pheasant
>industry is where factory farming meets bloodsports. Like hunting with
>hounds, it is time this grotesque practice was consigned to the
>history books.
>
>
>Home > News > News bulletin: November 2004
>
>Animal rights groups turn their sights on to game shooting
>This article from The Times (November 20, 2004) signals that pheasant
>shooting is now clearly on the political agenda:
>
>Animal rights campaigners have set their sights on banning game
>shooting after their victory over hunting. The League Against Cruel
>Sports and Animal Aid have made clear that they intend to step up
>their campaign against shooting as a bloodsport. The RSPCA, which has
>no campaign to ban shooting, is lobbying for a code of practice to
>protect pheasants reared for commercial shoots.
>
>The Labour Animal Welfare Society is switching its efforts to
>shooting. Its website states: "Hunting down - shooting to go." The
>society, based in Walsall is chaired by Wally Burley, and its
>vice-chair is Baroness Gale, the Labour peeress. It supports the
>Labour Party and has links to the anti-hunt MPs Tony Banks and Ian
>Cawsey.
>
>
> This campaign coverage in The Times followed the release of Fowl
>Play, Animal Aid's 2004 report into the pheasant shooting and rearing
>industry.
>
>The society estimates that 35 million pheasants a year are bred in
>factory-farming conditions to be "beaten into the sky and shot
>principally for sport".
>
>Police chiefs are aware of the threat to shooting and a number of
>forces have urged shooting estates to step up security. Estate
>managers have been advised to site breeding and release sheds and pens
>away from roads and footpaths. Police have suggested tighter
>surveillance although many landowners say that it is too expensive to
>install closed circuit televison cameras.
>
>The Government insists that it has no intention of restricting
>shooting, estimated to be worth at least ?1 billion to the rural
>economy and which attracts a million participants. But Douglas
>Batchelor, chief executive of the League Against Cruel Sports,
>believes that an MP will be persuaded to introduce a Private Member's
>Bill to start the process.
>
>"No animal should be bred and intensively reared or used for the sole
>purpose of providing a target for paying customers," he said. The
>league is concerned at the number of pheasants killed which are not
>eaten. About 13 million are shot in a season, twice as many as the
>market can absorb, and some estates have to bury them in pits.
>
>
> Not a pretty sight - pheasant feeding pens in the countryside
>stretching as far as the eye can see.
>
>Estates charge on the basis on the number of birds available, so there
>is little incentive to reduce the number. A day's shoot costs
>?400-?2,000.
>
>Andrew Tyler, director of Animal Aid, has started lobbying MPs about
>the suffering of birds reared for game shoots. "The pheasant industry
>is where factory farming meets bloodsports. The suffering experienced
>by these birds while they are being fattened for the kill and as they
>repeatedly run the gauntlet of the guns cannot plausibly be
>justified," he said.
I agree. It's scandalous.
>Peter Setterfield, who runs a shoot near Petworth, West Sussex, said:
>"With a ban on hunting we know that game shoots will now come under
>attack by saboeturs." He believes protests will be difficult because
>most shoots are on private land. "The worry is that they will be so
>frustrated that they will turn their attention to rearing units."
Good diea.
>
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