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READERS may be shocked to learn that every year in Britain around 50 million pheasants and partridges are mass-produced to serve as feathered targets for wealthy ‘guns’.
From birth they are confined in cages, sheds and pens, in which disease and death are a daily feature.
Many birds, frightened and stressed, are fitted with restraining devices over their beaks to prevent them from pecking their cage-mates.
About half the released birds die before they can be gunned down. They perish from exposure, starvation, disease or predation, or under the wheels of motor vehicles.
Only a fraction of the shot birds are eaten - even pro-shooting magazines have reported that many are buried in specially dug holes.
Killing animals for fun has no place in a civilised society. For a free Anti-Shooting Action Pack contact Animal Aid on 01732 364546 or go to www.animalaid.org.uk
P Mace,
Northampton Road,
Harborough.
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