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PARTRIDGES DESTINED TO BE SHOT LIBERATED

Taken from www.sarconline.co.uk | 01.09.2004 14:32 | Animal Liberation

It's that time of year again! The game shooting season starts in about a months time, and it seems that activists have once again been making a determined effort to stop the annual slaughter...

"These partridges were found crammed into a tiny pen on a known shooting estate in Hampshire."

"The doors of the pen were opened, and the birds were released into the wild, where they have a good chance to live out their natural lives, safe from lunatics with guns."

"The birds immediately took the opportunity to fly off into the sunset."

Taken from www.sarconline.co.uk

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roast

01.09.2004 14:51

There's nothing like game.
Partridge is delicious, but possibly not quite as satisfying to cook as guinea fowl.
Pheasant and grouse are equally pleasing to the palate.
These should all be shot wild, rather than reared in semi intensive conditions, as the artificiality of their breeding conditions impaires the flavour.

alan

Pheasants are chinese chickens

01.09.2004 15:53

I dunno which kind of partridges your dealing with, but I reckon if pheasants were left to their own devices they would very soon be extinct. Some books like my Observers Book of Bird describes them as semi domestic.
Pheasants and partridges are reared in captivity and only released a few weeks before they are driven onto the guns. It's much the same all over europe and is pretty disgusting. The Pheasant is only considered native of the UK in the interests of land owners and the arms industry. If someone hadn't picked a couple up and brought them here the only other way they could have got here was bunking onto a cross channel ferry they would certainly not have immigrated here... by choice ..

twin torrifagiani

ah-ha

01.09.2004 16:23

ahh i see
alles klar
right.
well however they are reared/shot: there's nothing like a good bit of game.

alan

grice

01.09.2004 17:42

who owns the shooting businesses? who's doing the shooting? killing animals for fun is what idle, not very clever rich people do to stop the boredom.

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Excellent action!

01.09.2004 18:33

Excellent work. Great to see.

Arp
Homepage: http://www.animalrightsmedia.com

Know your birds

01.09.2004 21:51

Starlings, House Sparrows, Rock Doves, and yes, Pheasants aren't native here either. None of these species could have made it here without human assistance. But they are indeed well established.

While they were introduced from the Orient as "ornamentals", pheasants are now well established as a feral population in almost all of Europe. The partridges are native (well, that depends upon the species, but Perdix perdix is native to all of Great Britain and Alectoris rufa anywhere east of Wales and South of the Humber).

Look folks, IT'S TOO LATE. Once "exotics" are introduced and establish themsleves they are damned difficult to erradicate. Your pheasants are with you for good. An English bird now.

Mike
mail e-mail: stepbystpefarm mtdata.com

is this a follow up to the kronstadt story?

01.09.2004 22:47

Partridges liberated rather than being shot? Trotsky will NOT be pleased...

not a trot

Until every last cage is opened!

01.09.2004 23:47

Great bit of news for those birds. Let's hope many, many of them are enjoying their freedom. Well done!

Fox

don't agree with you Mike

02.09.2004 10:11

I don't agree with you Mike, if thousands, possibly millions, of Pheasants were not released into the country side
each year then Pheasants would very soon become extinct. Sure 22 million of these end up full of lead shot,
only 2 million are eaten and 20 million end up in land fill sites.
As well as releasing millions of chinese chooks into the country side , game keepers also try to wipe out any species that is likely to prey on these defenceless birds.
The euro country side is now teeming with , Magpies, Jays, Green woodpeckers and shrikes all of these prey on
song birds and their nests. Where I live in Italy the "poison meat ball" is the local specialality, possibly aimed at Foxes and badgers, stoats and weasels but also at domestic cats and dogs. apart from all the damage caused by the hunting fraternity trying to adapt the countryside to the needs of the Pheasant there is also a big need for some real environmentalists in their place.
My point is that the Pheasant would not survive in open country without human help and this goes for the whole of europe ..

twin torrifagiani

Partridges

07.09.2004 16:19

Hmmm. What interesting comments. "Lunatics with guns" etc. I have enjoyed game shooting all over the UK and Europe, and I have never seen a "Lunatic with a gun" shooting a partridge, or anythign else for that matter. I have, however, seen many responsible, educated and professional people enjoying the sport of game shooting with a view to putting a brace of fine birds in the freezer for very tasty eating. It may have escaped some less enlightened individuals that humans are indeed omnivores and thus require meat protein. I am thus an omnivore and require meat. Partridge, pheasant, woodcock, grouse, duck, pigeon and goose are all fine birds that are very healthy and can form an important, healthy part of our diet. I encourage the readers of this page to adopt a more pluralist attitude when it comes to countryside sports, and refrain from the myopic use of tired old cliches such as "Lunatics with guns". The stringent licensing laws in this country prevent "lunatics" from having shotguns. The "lunatics" are not, in my view, the legally licensed sporting shooters in the UK.

Dr RFC

You never see them in the same room together...

08.09.2004 16:10

Dr KFC - are you infact Mr. Logic from the Viz?

Just wondering, like.

Professional people go shooting - reason enough to ban it.

Roger

Thrash Silly

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