I know I m going to get my head bitten off but here goes anyway

Thanks for the link to the article, Missfoodlove

Please take a minute to read the link.
www.gwct.org.uk/policy/briefings/driven-grouse-shooting/conservation-on-grouse-moors/

Townies cannot just turn up and shoot.
The restrictions are so tight!
Even years of pheasant shooting will not qualify you to shoot on a grouse moor.
If the shoot captain is unsure you will always shoot under supervision only.
The presence of hen harriers, black grouse and more are one of the reasons for this.
The game keepers are working hard to protect hen harriers because even though they will kill grouse they will also kill their many predators.
The BASC is all about conservation.
I will stress again grouse cannot be bred, gamekeepers will do all they can to encourage them and to provide the right habitat through heather burning etc. They are never captive unlike Pheasant.

I’m not going to bite anyone’s head off but George will be shooting grouse by the time he’s 10. Also if someone is prepared to eat meat they should see that something has to die for them to do so. If you’re a vegetarian or a vegan that’s different. All Royals shoot. As long as they eat it. It should never be done for fun.

I’m not sure the children in Our Yorkshire Farm actually slit the animals throats but it wouldn’t surprise me.

Desensitising children to animal cruelty is easily done. Doesn’t mean it’s good,

parkersheen

Children are usually mortified if they see an animal die and surely they are brought up to love their pets and all other living things. So I wonder how William & Kate justify shooting live defenceless creatures to their children?

Rural children aren't mortified.

Have you watched Our Yorkshire Farm?

The children who grow up on farms are well aware of what happens to animals

Town children tend to believe that chicken miraculously appears in a nugget.

When I lived on a smallholding in the Canaries, 5 year olds were wringing chicken's neck for our evening meal

I own up to feeling slightly horrified.

It doesn't really matter what any of our thoughts are, though.

The royals will do as they please, exactly as they always have.

Children are usually mortified if they see an animal die and surely they are brought up to love their pets and all other living things. So I wonder how William & Kate justify shooting live defenceless creatures to their children?

Grouse are protected for shooting - by eliminating wildlife on grouse moors.

Chardy

Breeding any creature to be killed for someone's 'pleasure' is repugnant. Taking a 6 year old along to watch is horrible.

Grouse aren't bred for shooting

Quite, halfpint1

Double standards (not everyone, I realise)

At least the Grouse have a life, factory farmed animals don't.
If people had to kill their own meat to eat the animal population would benefit.
Far too easy to buy meat thoughtlessly and then while
eating it become hot and bothered over a Grouse shoot

He's 7 and there's no evidence he was there.

Breeding any creature to be killed for someone's 'pleasure' is repugnant. Taking a 6 year old along to watch is horrible.

Prince George reportedly went !

It is unnecessary to shoot grouse for food. If you wanted to eat them they could be kept and despatched more efficiently. Few people want to eat them, and if there was money in it someone would be doing it. Kentucky fried grouse anyone? Yes they live a pampered life at the expense of the environment and wildlife. But they are terrorised at the end of their life for the fun of humans.

This happened last weekend so surely if there was real evidence it would have been all over the media by now and not just an assumption from PETA.

No pap is going to sit on a photo showing George at a shoot.

It's RF tradition extended family taking part.

Queen has been filmed wringing birds necks
RF likes shooting things

But for food presumably is ok.

I imagine it's true
I imagined leprechauns were true at one time.

I imagine it's true it's been in a few publications RF know for hunting fishing 'sports' I personally don't agree with shooting of birds or other game for fun

You know this to be fact do you, Grany?

In the entire history of life on earth, royal families must be the most successful parasites to have ever evolved.

www.townandcountrymag.com/society/tradition/a33896388/prince-george-kate-middleton-prince-william-grouse-hunting-first-time/

Prince George has been immersed in a key royal family tradition — the annual grouse shoot that takes place at his great grandmother’s Scottish estate.

The young royal was taken by dad Prince William and mom Kate Middleton on the game bird shoot with other members of the extended royal family towards the end of their annual summer break at Queen Elizabeth's 52,000-acre estate at Balmoral Castle.

George, 7, watched the adults take part in the shoot on the 7,000-acre grouse moor at Corgarff — about 10 miles from the castle.

yes I am

I assumed you would be, vegansrock.
I doubt everyone who is critical will be doing the same, though.

I will be eating a wild creature fished from the sea, so I have no grounds to criticise.

Hetty, there is vast moral difference between free range, well fed animals at grass with shelter and water on the opne hand and animals fed antibiotics and hormones for cheap meat.

There is a huge moral difference between the local artisan slaughterer, and long distance transports to the large commercial abattoir.