Dear Marc Bolland Just a recap really in case you are thinking of selling red grouse meat in your shops this year. Some things that have happened since your excellent decision not to see red grouse meat in your shops last year: I started shopping at M&S again governments, including the EU (and including the…
Category: Lead
How will LAG cope?
The reported resignation of Barnie White-Spunner from the Lead Ammunition Group marks a tactical retreat of the military man from a battle he could never win. The evidence for human and wildlife harm from lead poisoning is pretty much incontrovertible and so it was always going to be a rearguard action. It is rumoured that…
Henry is game
Henry did tell me that he has eaten grouse in the past, and so we went to Yorkshire Game to see what they had to offer. But they’d all gone home when we arrived. So Henry did a few circuits of the car park to stretch his wings. As Henry told you earlier, North Yorkshire…
Easy win on lead, minister
The incoming DEFRA ministers, will soon have to make a decision on whether to ban the use of lead ammunition in England. The science is pretty straightforward, and has been reviewed by an expert group, but the expected recommendation, to ban lead ammunition, will be deeply unpopular with vocal interest groups. I had a part…
Henry knows the Rules!
Henry asked me whether I’d had a reply from Rules restaurant about the provenance of their game meat and the amount of lead that is contained in it (and see here, here and here for previous bizarre correspondence on this subject). I’m afraid that London’s oldest restaurant, which specialises in game, is remarkably tight-lipped about…