Fowl play!
After the hunting ban comes a call to end the breeding of pheasants for 'sport shooting'.
Posted 01 Dec 2004
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Game industry complaint backfires
Guilty, as charged, of "abusing millions of captive birds"
Posted 21 May 2003
The pheasant industry – Feathering their nests
Andrew Tyler exposes the financial scams at the heart of the pheasant industry. We call it 'The Capone Factor'. The US authorities couldn't get underworld figure Al for murder, so they put him away for tax...
Posted 01 Oct 2002
Waiting to be killed – pheasant campaign coverage
Our campaign against the excesses of the pheasant rearing and shooting industry received an important boost with this feature in the Guardian on 7th October 2002. Coverage in the Guardian 'Fat, sluggish and just waiting to...
Posted 01 Oct 2002
Young Blood – MPs condemn young killers
As part of Animal Aid's ongoing campaign against pheasant rearing and shooting, we produced a damning report last November exposing the way the industry is avidly recruiting young children to make up for a big...
Posted 01 Jun 2002
The pheasant industry – in its own words…
Some recent quotes from the pro-shooting lobby.
Posted 01 Dec 2001
Pheasant shooting – in the news
Shooting Times and Sporting Gun have already devoted numerous pages over several issues on our campaign and a debate has begun about the conduct of the industry in their letters and features pages News article...
Posted 01 Oct 2001
Greed and excess tearing shooters apart
Pheasant shooting industry leaders forced to admit: 'Greed and excess are tearing us apart'
Posted 27 Sep 2001
John Lewis end staff game shoot
This article is reprinted from the Daily Telegraph, Friday 19 January 2001.
Posted 19 Jan 2001