Animal Aid investigators found many dead and mortally injured chicks. Requested meeting with DEFRA

by gamebirds_admin | Oct 12, 2018 | Timeline

Farm owned by the Game Farmers’ Association Head of Welfare, Paul Jeavons. Animal Aid investigators found many dead and mortally injured chicks. Action: (as above) Animal Aid requested a meeting with Defra Ministers Richard Benyon and Caroline Spelman to discuss our...

New Coalition government scrap the proposed ban on battery cages for pheasants and partridges.

by gamebirds_admin | Oct 12, 2018 | Timeline

One of the first decisions made by the new Coalition government was to scrap the proposed ban on battery cages for pheasants and partridges that had been announced just weeks before. More info: https://www.animalaid.org.uk/pandering-shooting-industry/...

Defra announced a new Code of Practice that would effectively ban the use of battery cages for pheasants and partridges

by gamebirds_admin | Oct 12, 2018 | Timeline

Defra announced a new Code of Practice that would effectively ban the use of battery cages for pheasants and partridges. This decision would be reversed by the new government after the May 2010 general election. More information:...

Animal Aid investigators filmed at four producers where scores of thousands of pheasants and partridges were confined in battery cages

by gamebirds_admin | Oct 12, 2018 | Timeline

Animal Aid investigators filmed at four producers where scores of thousands of pheasants and partridges were confined in battery cages. (Bettws Hall in Powys, Heart of England in Warwickshire, Hy-Fly in Lancashire and Pye Hall in Suffolk.) The birds in the cages...

The British Association for Shooting and Conservation announced its support for a ban on the use of battery cages

by gamebirds_admin | Oct 12, 2018 | Timeline

The British Association for Shooting and Conservation announced its support for a ban on the use of battery cages. More information:...