Still sabbing the bastards
Sunday 28th February - Demonstrate Against the Hoghton Tower Duck & Pheasant Shoot Demo 12-2pm at Hoghton Tower, near Preston, 2 minutes from Junction 3 of the M65 STOP THE SLAUGHTER OF DUCKS AND PHEASANTS Hoghton Tower are holding a Wedding promotion on the 28th February and it is important that visitors are made aware …
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At 11.30 am on Saturday 6 February 2010, over 130 nationally scarce hares on the Raveningham Estate (Norfolk) were happily basking in the winter sunshine. By 2 pm they had been laid out cold for display on the patio of the Old Granary Studio barn, (more often used for wedding functions and other happy occasions). …
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Please write to your MP and ask him or her to sign Early Day Motion (EDM) 507, which calls for a ban on the use of all battery cages for ‘game birds’. A decision on their future will soon be taken, so please write as soon as possible. The EDM has been tabled following the …
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A 16 October 2009 report in the Bridgenorth Journal described how a much-loved family dog was shot by a gamekeeper when he was alleged to be worrying game birds. According to the owner, the West Mercia police took no action and justified the shooting as the protection of ‘livestock’. Released game birds are not livestock. …
They call us a nation of animal lovers, yet attacks on creatures in their natural habitats have more than doubled in a year Crimes against wildlife, including badger baiting with dogs, hare coursing, poisoning of protected birds and even trapping them to sell as caged pets have soared to unprecedented heights. New figures from the …
So, the hunting fraternity are incensed by the cruelty-free chain Lush lending their support to the Hunt Saboteurs Association. And how do the hunting fraternity respond? As always with intimidation. Some of the shops throughout the UK had displays of anti-hunting posters and leaflets knocked down, members of staff verbally abused and front of shop …
At Lush, we're on the side of the foxes, which is why we are proud to launch our latest campaign against illegal fox hunting. We let out a sigh of relief in 2004 when Parliament finally reacted to the will of the people and passed the Hunting Act, which outlawed the chasing and killing of …
The cosmetics company Lush is launching a bubble bath it hopes will raise tens of thousands of pounds for anti-blood sports activists who sabotage fox hunts. The Hunt Saboteurs Association will be the latest beneficiary of proceeds from Lush, the ethical producer of handmade soaps which has gained a reputation for backing radical protest groups. …
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In the next few weeks Sheffield Hunt Saboteurs will begin to disrupt bird shoots, fox hunts, and hare hunts which plan to kill wildlife for the next 8 months. There are many hunters and shooters in the North of England, some just 20 minutes out of Sheffield. We use a variety of tactics (see http://hsa.enviroweb.org/hsa.shtml) …
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QUEEN guitarist Brian May has agreed to be the patron of a new anti-hunting group based in North Wales. The group, Wales Against Animal Cruelty, was set up earlier this year by Rhyl activist Judi Hewitt to fight Tory plans to repeal the ban on hunting with dogs. “I'm delighted that such a high-profile celebrity …
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