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Article: It's a fantasy and fallacy ; In late July when the local shoots are holding barbecues for their beaters, and keepers are getting the pheasants out into the release pens, the pheasant fanciers come out of hibernation.
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- Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK)
- Article date:
- July 26, 2008
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In late July when the local shoots are holding barbecues for
their beaters, and keepers are getting the pheasants out into the
release pens, the pheasant fanciers come out of hibernation.
Fiona Pereira a self-styled campaigner for Animal Aid is one.
Writing on July 23 under the heading "Feathered fallacy", she refers
us to a publication called Cheating the Public. Both she and this
publication make some very dubious claims.
Animal Aid says that some 40 per cent of pheasants seen to be
shot are not retrieved. Not on any shoot I have worked on in the
last 50 years. Shoots are exemplary in picking up and dispatching
wounded birds.It also says ...
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