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SHAMEFUL ADMISSION BY SCOTLAND'S SHOOTING INDUSTRY
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?" -ends- 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) |
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