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Pledge “banshooting”

"I will write to the Secretary of State for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and call for a ban on the rearing and shooting of birds for so called 'sport' but only if 100 people will do the same."

— Chris Gale (contact)

Deadline to sign up by: 1^st June 2008
39 people signed up, 61 more were needed

Country: United Kingdom

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Every year in Britain, some 35 million pheasants and millions more partridges are mass produced inside hatcheries and rearing sheds. From the sheds, they are moved to fattening pens before being released to serve as feathered targets for shooters.

The Labour government should not be actively supporting this barbaric industry and we call upon them to stop promoting killing for 'sport' and ban game bird shooting.

Comments on this pledge

• The ban should also include hares which are kept artificially high in numbers in some areas, especially East Anglia, so that they can be shot for "sport" with the excuse that this is a pest control exercise.
  Rodney Hale, 3 months ago. Abusive? Report it!
• I agree with Rodney Hale, hares should also be included. Apart from the cruel rearing and shooting of birds, shooting estates are the worst offenders for setting cruel and barbaric snares.
  Helen Weeks
  Helen Weeks, 3 months ago. Abusive? Report it!
• Sometimes insensitive people try to justify 'sport' shooting on the grounds that it provides a green and humane source of food. It is time for it to be widely known that millions of pheasants are factory farmed and then abondoned in the countryside. The activity is just plain cruel which ever way you look at it!
  Ivor Annetts, 3 months ago. Abusive? Report it!
• If the bird has a good life until cleanly shot, and is then eaten, I accept it though I couldn't do it.
  But these criteria are not met for the vast majority of game birds, which are suffering victims of a bloodsport which must be ended.
  Peter Bunce, 3 months ago. Abusive? Report it!
• Isn't it high time the Government imposed a tax on stupid, bigoted people calling for stupid, bigoted bans?
  A. J. Moss, 3 months ago. Abusive? Report it!
• I think the ban should include the shooting of all animals.
  Paul Pengelly, 2 months ago. Abusive? Report it!
• I think these "Hooray Henry's" need a good slapping.
  But then again they might enjoy it
  Good luck with your pledge mate
  garsin cheung, 2 months ago. Abusive? Report it!