I could weep when I read this

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Shocking!!
The human race has a lot to answer for!

What is the matter with people? These cute birds are beautiful. Why isn’t the government clamping down on this?

Awful

The Icelandic government allows puffin hunting for 10 days a year. Puffins are eaten in Iceland. I think shooting any living creature is incomprehensible including grouse and partridge here in the UK but don’t think it’s worse to shoot cute looking birds. They are not endangered and certainly not in Iceland. Given their importance to things like tourism there, I doubt the Icelandic government will put them at risk. Hunting and shooting are very much part of UK society and I dislike all types of activity like that. Some very high ranking Brits have been photographed trophy hunting .

I understand there are also companies offering the opportunity to hunt polar bears! I really don't understand the mentality of those who want to kill an animal for "sport". Where is the sport?

Here we are

Shocking ?

They start them young

royalcentral.co.uk/uk/cambridge/prince-george-attends-his-first-grouse-shoot-107748/

That is so horrible.

www.league.org.uk/news/half-the-millions-of-birds-killed-during-new-pheasant-shooting-season-never-make-it-to-a-game-dealer

I really don’t see the moral difference between shooting game and shooting puffins.

I meant that about the puffins but I don't like the Prince George thing either. I hope he's at least made to eat some of the grouse.

Do, they need to eat the puffins? No. They don't. Fucking "trophy hunters". Idiots.

Two wrongs don't make a right Suziewoozie

Teach kids to kill Horrendous I d have thought better of the younger royals but obviously I m giving expecting them to have compassion than they have Kate surprises me I d have thought she’d have been more thoughtful it but obviously not

I realise Puffins aren’t endangered species in Iceland but that doesn’t make it right to kill them for fun and to actually pay money to own and brag of owning a blooming carcasss is beyond my imagination

suziewoozie nor do I neither should be killed for ‘fun’

I bet Kate has to "tow the party line". Although, of course, she is a country girl herself, so perhaps goes along with it.

Pheasants are eaten as are chickens, ducks, geese

Exactly Annie. Turkey Farms are precisely that, places where turkeys are bred, reared and finally killed mainly for Christmas along with Geese! Some chickens and ducks have a stay of execution if they're reared for laying, but even these usually end up in the pot!!!! Pheasants and Grouse are equally bred and reared , ending up in smart hotels for consumption, and are not shot for fun. Puffins however are very endearing! Would we be so outraged if they were Skewers, or Herring Gulls?!!

Many many game birds killed for sport are not eaten ( as my link shows). Some puffins are eaten - I don’t think that’s the point either. It’s the killing of living creatures for sport. I do understand the issue of raising creatures just to be slaughtered for food but that’s not what we are talking about here is it?

I find any kind of hunting absolutely abhorrent unless perhaps it is to eat the creature - even then I can't bear it. Too many humans on the planet - if only something would hunt them!

Jabber the primary aim of game shooting parties is to kill for sport. Many of these shooting parties could be called ‘trophy events’ just like going off to Iceland to shoot puffins. The former are quite prestigious events on some groups social calendars. I think it’s odd to care more about puffins because they are ‘endearing’.

I don't have too much of an issue with birds being 'shot for the pot' so to speak, as long as that is what they are for and it is done humanely and not as a sport by City types having a day out and being unable to shoot properly, wing and injure the birds. I do though, have a serious problem with trophy shooting, just what kind of mindset thinks this is a good way to spend a day? I think also that if the younger royals wish to be more relevant, they need to drop this as a hobby or sport; it's a bit hypocritical to give speeches about the environment and conservation and then kill animals and birds. As to the puffins, that is very upsetting, they are adorable birds and I just cannot see where the sport is in shooting them, they probably walk towards the gun.

It’s well known that beautiful birds of prey are regularly killed illegally to facilitate a good day’s shooting. This article references Scotland but it happens elsewhere
theferret.scot/birds-prey-killed-grouse-shooting-estates/