LACK OF KNOWLEDGE IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS!

DEPARTMENT for ENVIRONMENT, FOOD & RURAL AFFAIRS.

I checked it’s full title just to see what it did actually stand for. What it is really there for should be for legitimate discussion. I know it has been discussed in The Lords and where the truth has been denied by denying he did not know.

I now quote from Raptor Persecution UK 3rd  February;

“Earlier today, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at DEFRA, and pheasant shoot owner, The Rt. Hon. Lord Benyon, was speaking in the House of Lords about gamebird shooting and was asked about pheasant dumping. Benyon claimed to have no knowledge of it taking place”

So there you have it. He doesn’t know what is going on! 

The facts are there are numerous sites where birds have been dumped. All he has to do is follow RP UK site.

One aim, it says, is for improving and protecting the environment. That does sound to be a very just, worthwhile and a serious matter. However, when we see ‘the authorised ’ burning of moorland where our peat bogs are being destroyed contradicts this. But, of course, the reason for the burning and the non-intervention when moorland fires are lit is for fresh heather shoots for Red Grouse. I will say more on Grouse Shooting later.

‘Grow Green’ they also say and that is contradicted by the allowed burning of peat bogs. A significant and important natural place and where CO2 can be stored.

The following aim if it wasn’t so serious a matter is ‘to sustain rural economies’. I maintain it is laughable that shooting and hunting are able to do that. There is much in supporting the local economies that can be done other than shipping in those who can afford to blast birds from the skies. Do they stay and enjoy the fine dining? No, they bugger off having paid for that privilege on the profit of those who are on minimum wage.  

I have condemned the principle of ‘driven shoots’, the trapping, shooting and poisoning or anything, mammal and bird, that effects the habitat of grouse and the birds themselves. I am incensed by the fact that most of these areas should be in the public domain not lorded over by a few that inherited them.

In the end it is allowed to be continued by what I term, as the class divide. But times are changing and with the effort being made by many groups and individuals progress is happening.

I have written on this before and I am currently compiling a poetry collection on ‘wildlife crime’ and the environment. Today, I have written a three stanza poem on seeing those dumped birds and the words that came to me. It is fresh on the screen and I will continue to hone it.