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.

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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