Our hunting organisations are dinosaurs compared with those elsewhere in Europe – and even in many ways compared with those in the USA and Canada. As Waitrose consider rewording their health warning on their packs of game meat on sale in their stores (see here and here) they should glance at the advice on consumption…
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Go back in time on the IoW – particularly if you are a farmer
By Ordnance Survey – map from 1945, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org One of the attractions of visiting the Isle of Wight is that you just get a little taste of what the UK was like in the 1950s – that’s why the OS map above is so appropriate. You almost expect to see items in the…
Letter to my MP – we might agree on this!
Dear Mr Pursglove I hope you will vote against the Brexit deal agreed between the government and the EU. I suspect you may vote against it because you don’t feel it is a sufficiently hard Brexit. I feel it isn’t a sufficiently soft Remain. But, for once, I trust we can agree that it is…
Waitrose warnings on lead
I do think that Waitrose deserve some credit for having this heath warning about lead shot on their game meat even though it is very badly worded. I think they are leading (no pun intended) the way in telling the public that eating lead is an issue – I am not aware of any warnings…
Brexit will be a disaster for wildlife
Are you getting a bit bored with Brexit? You are aren’t you? I confess to feeling a little that way myself sometimes but I always shake myself out of it – and so I’m writing this to shake you out of it too. Brexit will be a disaster for wildlife – it doesn’t necessarily have…