Every year in the UK, at least 50 million pheasants and partridges are mass-produced in cages, hatcheries, sheds and pens so that they can be shot down by wealthy 'guns', who commonly pay £1,000 per day for the ‘privilege’. Hundreds of thousands of ‘game’ birds, used for egg production, are confined for the whole of their lives in metal battery cages, known as raised laying units.
Grouse are also classed as ‘game’. Around half a million of these birds are killed every year in Britain for ‘sport’ by some of the wealthiest and influential individuals in the land. Any wild animal deemed to be a threat to the brief survival of the grouse (including stoats, weasels and even iconic raptors such as hen harriers, red kites and golden eagles) are legally or illegally trapped, snared, or poisoned.
In order to create a landscape for feeding and sheltering the grouse, ecologically precious blanket bog is burned and drained.
In addition, around 1 million ducks are shot for sport between 1 September and 31 January – the majority purpose bred in sheds. - Literature from Animal Aid. http://www.animalaid.org.uk/h/n/CAMPAIGNS/pheasant/ALL///
Please end this horrible, out dated, corrupt "sport" that's only interested in revenue and not animal welfare or rights. It is clearly only to make rich people feel more powerful when in reality they are killing an innocent, intelligent being with a family! Have a heart and end this vile "sport" forever!
“Cruelty, which begins on animals, does not stop there.” - Olivia Manning
