‘Fix the Bird Not The Conditions’: the logic of the factory farm
Many of our readers have been in touch to ask about the strange plastic devices visible on the beaks of birds in some of the images we’ve used with previous articles. Many of us won’t have seen these things before, but what you are seeing are called beak guards and in the next few articles […]
“We’ll Try It, See What Happens”: Shocking ‘Treatment’ of Caged Pheasant
Heart of England is one of the UK’s largest breeders of birds for the gun. On its website, the company boasts that its birds are “produced without any shortcuts” and that it is “justly proud of the way it is produced.” What our undercover investigator filmed inside its sheds tells you exactly what “no shortcuts” […]
Undercover footage aired by ITV exposes cruelty at the heart of the bird shooting industry
Shooting. They call it “sport”. Dress it in the language of tradition, countryside stewardship, and conservation. Wrap it in tweed and tie it with the reassuring ribbon of British heritage But what Protect the Wild’s investigators found behind the gates of a British farm tells a very different story – one the shooting industry has […]