Outlaw this grisly ‘Sport’……
Animal Aid would like to
invite readers to order a free copy of our new publication, The Trouble With
Shooting.
The booklet is a short and informative guide for anyone
who wants to know more about the mass production of pheasants, Partridges,
Grouse and ducks, destined to become feathered targets for shooters.
This is the start of the breeding season for the 46
million pheasants and partridges who are bred annually for shooters.
2010 is the last year that raised battery cages will be
used for mass-producing pheasants, but sadly, it does not represent and end to
the production of birds for ‘sport’ shooting.
Many are not retrieved and face a slow and agonising
death from their wounds. The ‘lucky’ few who make it through to the end of
shooting season are faced with the grim prospect of death by starvation,
predation or under the wheels of cars.
The majority of shot birds are not sold as food, and
there are reliable accounts of birds being buried in specially dug pits because
there is so little demand for their meat.
They are bred solely for the purpose of becoming a live,
feathered target, to indulge the sick appetites of a violent few.
More details, as well as photos taken from our undercover
investigations, can be seen in the new booklet, so please order your free copy
of ‘The Trouble with Shooting’ straight away!
Fiona Pereira
The Old Chapel
Bradford
Street