“BLOOD SPORTS FOR ALL IS THE CHOSEN APPROACH AS THE CAMBRIDGE’s TAKE THE CHILDREN SHOOTING”
That's the headline in the Guardian Newspaper by Catherine Bennett. And it's a good one too.
It's all about our future monarch taking his seven year old son to see the shooting of Red Grouse on a driven grouse moor near Balmoral.
The conservationists don't like it and neither do I.
In my view this does not set the correct tone for the future behaviour of our Monarchy.
Again tradition trumps conservation when we know that grouse moor management have blood on their hands when it comes to Raptor Persecution. There have too many Raptor and mammal recorded deaths on estates where grouse are being shot.
My comments follow on from my previous blog and this short poem written a few weeks ago reveals my personal feelings.
GUNSHOT ECHO
Hear it, the deathly gunshot call
An echo of a life that dies
For some the everlasting thrall
Of killing beauty as it flies
An echo of a life that dies
No matter what attitude decrees
Of killing beauty as it flies
Stays fixed in the mind like disease
No matter what attitude decrees
We are guardians of our earth
And must support the guarantee
That gives every new day a birth
We are guardians of our earth
Not to forestall but give our all
That gives every day a new birth
And not to hear the gunshot call
John Edwards (C) 6th July 2020
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