Dumping of shot pheasants
- Thread starter richard griffith
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Sad to see so many members of SD needlessly arguing amongst themselves regarding who can best assert their claim to the moral high ground.
It’s looking mighty crowded up there at the moment.
It’s looking mighty crowded up there at the moment.
This is something that always has puzzled me. I worked with several young keeper's in my time and not one of them eat game or venison. They seemed to prefer to waste their money on McD's or takeaways , even Scotch pies.
Even now I know a great many folk who shoot deer but certainly will not eat offal or venison.
It just shows how well off most people are, even if they believe they are not. From being weaned I have eaten everything put in front of me excluding cooked sprouts, raw yes but not cooked. If you don't eat it,( other than vermin/predators) don't kill it. People generally have far too easy a life if they are able to forego free food.
John Gryphon
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to pay so much to shoot them and not even take a feed home...now that is plainly wrong imo.
Yes, I have. Many times. It was the people that sickened me and eventually turned me away from that aspect of fieldsports, rather than the practice itself.
The same sort of people, I guess, who'd shoot pheasants all day and then not take a brace home.
Instinctively, I'd tend to agree with that but the fact is that food waste is rife both here and globally whether it is meat, fish, fruit or vegetable. All those forms of waste are equally regrettable and morally dubious.
Some pheasants will be wasted, just as some rainforest and all the species within are wasted growing wasted food even for vegans who never throw any food away.
enfieldspares
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Harrumph! Money spent on mutton filled Scotch pies is never wasted money!
As a society we have become soft.
My grandparents generation eked out their food to last the whole week, and wasting food was seen as something akin to a sin. Very often they didn’t know where the next meal was coming from, or when it might arrive.
Today, food waste is rife, with the UK alone estimated to throw away over 9.5 million tonnes of food every year. The population expects to be fed on demand, with exactly what they want to eat, and with minimal preparation. Ideally they will eat ready meals and takeaways!
It is little wonder that, in a society such as this, shooting for food is seen as unnecessary, and game as a food source is viewed with suspicion.
My grandparents generation eked out their food to last the whole week, and wasting food was seen as something akin to a sin. Very often they didn’t know where the next meal was coming from, or when it might arrive.
Today, food waste is rife, with the UK alone estimated to throw away over 9.5 million tonnes of food every year. The population expects to be fed on demand, with exactly what they want to eat, and with minimal preparation. Ideally they will eat ready meals and takeaways!
It is little wonder that, in a society such as this, shooting for food is seen as unnecessary, and game as a food source is viewed with suspicion.
A solid dose of pure grease in a fatty pastry. Used to take Sika to a butcher and see them being made in the back of the shop. Never touched one since.
Totally agree with you, having been on a small syndicate and rough shooting previously I got invited on a high pheasant day a couple of weeks back. Ethical shoot where all the birds go to a dealer, apparently. At the end of the day I took 6 braces of the 8 braces left for the guns home as most of the other guns just walked passed them.
Found it hugely disrespectful and quite shocking.
so true my very elderly parents hate throwing away any food, probably the change over the years to fast foods, fast food takeaways and the modern way of living are significantly to blame, preparing a meal with raw ingredients at home to cook now seen as time consuming with too little time to do so, or costly. Most just happy to watch master chef whilst eating a mcD’s Then all wonder why we have such heath issues in the country.
Smellydog
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Yes and no. Sometimes yes it is easy but sometimes they are very switched on birds. Released birds are easy but if the survive a few years they learn all the threats including man.
I don't think we can make a sweeping judgment here.
My father had a similar experience.
He was a photo-journalist back in the 70's, and one assignment was to document food producers based in London.
He found a company involved in the manufacture of hot-dogs.
Once seen, never eaten
Dunwaters
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The crux of the matter is that game is now a by-product of game shooting, to some extent it always has been, but current production levels have completely overwhelmed the market to the extent that prices have totally collapsed and you can’t even give it away.
As long as the demand for shooting outstrips the market for game its not going to change and deer are likely to be the next victims of this trend, I’m getting 50% of what I was 2 years ago.
We need to shoot less, develop a broader market for the product or just get used to leaving it on the ground.
As long as the demand for shooting outstrips the market for game its not going to change and deer are likely to be the next victims of this trend, I’m getting 50% of what I was 2 years ago.
We need to shoot less, develop a broader market for the product or just get used to leaving it on the ground.
Tweed sock full of it you are .Everyone loves a comedian, or perhaps we have an anti in our midst, looking to stir things up.
Then again, just looked at your intro, Swindon, explains it all
I own precisely zero tweed but I know a lot of people from Swindon
Bo Diddley
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Perfectly summed up this thread
Malxwal
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It happens on here with alarming regularity.Perfectly summed up this thread
Maybe only usurped by a
on UKV who thought his multiple rifle ownership wouldn't be affected if all live quarry hunting was stopped.
