[clinch]

Buzzards have become a big problem on chicken farms

[Dingbat]

Originally Posted by David Tee

Shooting Sports - 2006 (Foreword by D. Miliband)

❖ 480,000 people shoot live quarry
❖ Shooting supports the equivalent of 70,000 full time jobs
❖ Shooters spend £2 billion each year on goods and services
❖ Shooting is worth £1.6 billion to the UK economy
❖ Shooting is involved in the management of two-thirds of the
rural land area
❖ Two million hectares are actively managed for conservation
as a result of shooting
❖ Shooter providers spend £250 million a year on conservation
❖ Shooters spend 2.7 million work days on conservation – the
equivalent of 12,000 full-time jobs

Apologies - I've got to head out now. A shame because I'd love to sit here and argue the toss over why the countryside should be as free to sustain its heritage and follow its ambitions as those in the towns - few things get me more riled up than those who argue otherwise - but it'll have to wait.

So they can easily afford to pay back the tax payers' money which DEFRA has to spend on this pointless research, then?

[Sallyforth]

Thought it said peasants for a minute. Now that I could well believe.....!!

[CRM]

The Tories are doing peasant shoots already in a metaphorical sense!

[Sallyforth]

quod erat demonstrandum...!