Big Game Hunters?

[ericrovve]

Not for the squeamish:


2 of 5 starlings taken from the deep-freeze for plucking after lunch today. It seems, here in southern France, quite normal to throw the days slaughter into the deep-freeze, innards, intestine an' all, and take them out to pluck and dress when required. eek!
The 'hunter' told me that two starlings are equal to one thrush.

[goosey]

All I want to say is "Why" - but I don't want an answer .

[paul m]

Could be worse ... indeed, it is worse ....
BBC News | Europe | French hunters target bunting

[wild worlds]

This may well upset some folks, but if so sorry in advance. I don’t have too much of a problem with hunting “for the pot”. You want some meat, you go and shoot a rabbit, bird, deer or whatever. In many cultures this is a way of life and not just a way of survival.
What I have a big problem with is hunting for sport or commercial exploitation. The dodo was hunted to extinction for sport and the passenger pigeon for commercial exploitation, the bison almost went the same way. Shooting tiny birds like starling and bunting isn’t “shooting for the pot”, it’s “sport” shooting in the same way that buying a licence to shoot an elephant in Africa ( yes you still can!) is. I find it something of a contradiction that one of the great “sport shooters” of all time is or at least was, patron of the WWF! WW

[ericrovve]

(Could be worse ... indeed, it is worse .... )

...and worse even than the article said - they're kept in total darkness and force fed. Mitterand certainly asked for ortolan for his 'last supper' (he died a week or so later) wether he actually got them no-one is quite sure

[willsmiller]

Originally Posted by paul m

Could be worse ... indeed, it is worse ....
BBC News | Europe | French hunters target bunting

Thanks a lot for sharing this news. It is really worse and government should do more steps (more then $10,000 fine and even more strict rules) to prevent its hunt.