I am grateful to Steve Ormerod for his guest blog of yesterday. It was good of him to respond, as he did – he didn’t have to at all. As Steve wrote, the RSPB and I share almost completely common ground on the problems as we see them. Maybe we differ here or there, but…
Category: BAN DRIVEN GROUSE SHOOTING
Guest blog by RSPB Chair of Council, Prof Steve Ormerod
Mark, As I promised, I’m responding to your questions and challenges set out in your earlier blog. You regularly and accurately point out that we are all basically after the same thing: we a future for England’s moors and hills that is free from the illegal killing of birds of prey and where land management…
M&S getting a pasting on social media #spiritofsummer
I’ve not seen the industry-leading Code of Practice that underpins M&S’s belief that they can sell grouse meat this year – has anyone? I’ve not heard a thing from M&S – has anyone? I’m not convinced that I should be shopping at M&S – are you?
It’s all written down here
I’m accused of various things, mostly by people who don’t know me, but a really good thing about writing a blog and writing articles, and writing books, is that my words are there, out in the open for anyone to read. So you can make your own minds up. About 100,000 of those words, on…
Thank you Greens!
The Green Party of England and Wales is the only UK political party, as far as I am aware, which supports a ban of driven grouse shooting. And this has not just been through passive support, the current party leader, Natalie Bennett, amongst others, has spoken out in social media on this subject (also see…
Labour voters and Jeremy Corbyn – this is about fairness
Our e-petition calling for an end to driven grouse shooting is whizzing along – but it is gaining least support in urban Labour constituencies (which is ironic since we used to be told that these are the only people who would support it!). If you live in Birmingham, Coventry, Oldham, Manchester, Bradford, Leeds or Leicester,…
All in the 90s
A whole clutch of constituencies are poised to reach 100 signatures on our e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting and join the ‘100 Club‘ (which now numbers 41 constituencies with the very recent addition of Cambridge, East Lothian and Southwest Surrey) Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk 99 signatures Richmond (Yorks) 99 signatures East Devon 98…
This is not just spin, this is M&S spin
The story so far: For several years this blog, and lots of M&S customers, have been asking M&S (previously run by a keen shooter, Marc Bolland) not to sell Red Grouse in their stores – and so far they haven’t. The production of Red Grouse for driven grouse shooting is environmentally damaging and is underpinned…
M&S – oh dear, oh dear, oh dear!
M&S announced today that they intend to sell Red Grouse meat this year – I had asked them following previous years discussion (2014: here and here; 2015 here and here). Today I asked M&S some questions. Here are their answers: ‘Our team have worked with the RSPB and the Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust…
Questions for M&S
Following their announcement today, I’ve been in touch with the M&S press office and they say they’ll get back to me with clarification on these questions – later today. That’s very nice of them. can you please send me a copy of your code of practice for selling game meat? who are, or at…