Press Release 19th Feb 2007

SHAMEFUL ADMISSION BY SCOTLAND'S SHOOTING INDUSTRY

LEAGUE AGAINST CRUEL SPORTS CONDEMNS TREATMENT OF GAME BIRDS

The Game Conservancy Trust has admitted the welfare of many game birds
was jeopardised this season by transporting the birds hundreds of
miles in hot weather.

In the 2006/07 Game Season Review in the latest edition of the
Shooting Times (15th Feb) Ian Lindsay of the GCT states that:

"Some heavy losses occurred to pheasants bought from southern England
presumably the result of long, hot journeys and stress-related
disease."

This dramatic understatement hardly conveys the true horrors of the
commercial shooting industry and simply proves what anti-shooting
campaigners have argued for a long time - that intensive breeding and
rearing is not confined to England and Wales.

Scotland Campaigner for the League Against Cruel Sports, Louise
Robertson says, "This admission from Mr Lindsay highlights just how
little regard is paid to the welfare of these birds which are bred by
the thousand, in horrific conditions, to be shot for entertainment
purposes. It flies in the face of countless arguments by commercial
shooting promoters that intensive breeding is not part of the industry
in Scotland".




"I would urge Mr Lindsay to put an exact figure on what he means by
"heavy losses" - are we talking hundreds, thousands or indeed more
game birds dying in this manner?"

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Note to editors:

For more information about intensive breeding and rearing of game
birds go to http://www.league.org.uk/uploads/documents/doc_298.pdf

Angus Macmillan
www.roots-of-blood.org.uk
www.killhunting.org
www.con-servation.org.uk

All truth passes through three stages:
First, it is ridiculed;
Second, it is violently opposed; and
Third, it is accepted as self-evident.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)