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A Review of the League Against Cruel Sport's view on gamekeepering in the UK.
As if sensing victory in its campaign to outlaw hunting with “dogs”, the UK-based League Against Cruel Sports (LaCS) is now living up to its promise to campaign against shooting.
One of its first salvoes in the LaCS propaganda drive is a 20-page report on the work of gamekeepers on commercial shoots in Britain published earlier this month. Titled “Killing for Sport – an investigation into how gamekeepers are devastating Britain’s wildlife” the report concentrates on the number of animals and birds killed by gamekeepers by way of vermin control quoting a figure of 4.5 million per annum on some 2,000 shooting estates and farms.
Predictably, the LaCS beats the drum of class war with an executive summary that refers to celebrities who pay up to £2,000 for a day’s shooting but who might not have any “…notion of quite how bloody their new hobby is.”
Among the celebrities named in the summary is Vinnie Jones. Vinnie Jones is the son of a gamekeeper. Oops! Somebody in the research team missed that one.
To read the LaCS report, click on the following link: http://www.league.uk.com/news/media_briefings/2003/october03/KillingForSport.pdf
countryside ireland Media Team