BASC and Countryside Alliance – the chocolate scare

You may remember that the Food Standards Agency recently updated its advice on eating game shot with lead. And you may remember that BASC (see link) and the Countryside Alliance (see link) trotted out some outrageous nonsense about there being more lead in chocolate than in the meat of game that had been shot with…

BASC, Countryside Alliance and the chocolate

It is now over a week since I pointed out that the statements by BASC and the Countryside Alliance on the relative amounts of lead in chocolate and game meat are incorrect. Whereas these rash statements may have originally been made in error they remain on the BASC and CA websites: BASC says ‘Pound for…

A couple of lessons

I’d quite like to write a book entitled ‘Advice to a young advocate’ which would give tips on how to influence the political system.  I’d not be the right person to write all of it so I’d need a few co-authors too – I wonder what Tony Juniper would think of the idea. There are…

Are you game?

The Spanish Agency on Food Safety and Nutrition has looked at the human health risks associated with use of lead shot in hunting.  I guess Spaniards eat quite a bit more game than you and I, and that hunters eat more than non-hunters do.  If you are an Andalucian game-hunter (and I guess you are…