Cruelty to birds raised for sport
Every year in Britain more than 45 million pheasants and partridges are mass-produced as targets for wealthy 'guns'. From birth they are confined in cages, sheds and pens, in which disease and death are a daily feature.
Many are fitted with bits and blinkers to limit both vision and damage done when they peck cage-mates. Animal Aid has filmed this. The physical and mental suffering is heartbreaking. Labour was about to ban battery-cages, but the Tories have a minister to promote hunting and shooting - Jim Paice - and he is intent on keeping them.
About half the released birds die before they can be gunned down. They die from exposure, starvation, disease, predation, or on the roads. Of the rest, a fraction are eaten.
Mike Maas, Woodbank Road
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