Dear Mr Pursglove Thank you for your response to my earlier letters, and I have just received the response from Chris Skidmore MP, Cabinet Office, on the Lobbying Act. But before I comment briefly on those responses, and return to another issue, may I congratulate you on your appointment as PPS to Dr Liam Fox…
Category: Lead
US hunters – way ahead of ours!
A bit more reading for Fareshare and Ian Botham (see earlier blog post). The antisocial nature of shooting a poisonous element into food – especially food that you give away to poor people – has long been recognised by US hunters who, dare I say it, do not always appear to be the most flexible…
Fareshare – have you done due diligence on game meat?
Following Ian Botham’s car crash radio interview yesterday it is worth considering the whole business of donating shot game to the poor and needy. Sounds like a good idea but things are often more complicated than they seem. We can learn from US experience. The Country Food Trust is donating meals containing shot game to…
Thousands more to eat lead-shot game
The Food Teachers Centre has a lot to learn! GCSE students will be taught how to serve up meat containing high levels of lead thanks to the naivety of teachers and the lack of responsibility of the shooting ‘industry’. Shooters are being encouraged by Taste of Game to donate shot game to schools – in…
Let them eat grice! with a side order of lead.
I am grateful to a non-reader of this blog, my mum, for pointing out this joke article in the i newspaper. Patrick Galbraith thinks that Pheasants are the solution to food poverty – and that grouse could play their part too. This follows his witty article on fox hunting being the most egalitarian sport, much…