I hope they do ban it, these poor birds are often seen on roadsides after being let out.
They have no idea how to survive, and I have even seen farmers drive straight through them and kill them without a care!
They also need to ban battery farming.
National animal welfare charity, the League Against Cruel Sports, is urging the Welsh public to back a campaign to end the cruel cage breeding of pheasants and partridges.
The charity is holding a family-friendly roadshow in Wrexham and is inviting the public to come along and meet the campaigners. Residents will be asked to contact their Members of the Senedd and urge them to back a ban on caged game bird breeding.
According to the game bird industry’s own figures, up to 90,000 game birds are confined to cages in Wales to produce the staggering eight million eggs needed for the shooting industry every year. The pheasants and partridges are then released into the countryside only to be shot from the sky in the name of ‘sport’.
Billie-Jade Thomas, senior public affairs officer (Wales) for the League Against Cruel Sports said: "Pheasants and partridges are kept in cramped, restricted conditions and denied even the most basic of welfare protections.
"It’s time for change, and Wales can and should lead the way in ending the cruel use of cages for game birds and to stop their suffering.”
Polling commissioned by the League and undertaken by YouGov in January 2021 indicated 72 per cent of the Welsh public think using cages to breed game birds should be illegal.
Breeding pheasants and partridges are denied the basic protections other farmed birds such as poultry receive, including minimum space restrictions.
They are kept in barren battery cages – metal boxes raised from the ground with a mesh floor and a roof of netting or rigid wire – with no opportunities to fly, forage or experience freedom.
In a bid to escape their confinement, many suffer appalling injuries such as head wounds inflicted by jumping repeatedly and futilely against the roof of their cages.
Billie-Jade added: "The Welsh Government has committed to examine the evidence around the use of breeding cages for game birds and to introduce registration for commercial breeders for shooting. But more action is needed to make Wales a cage-free nation.
"Wales has the opportunity to be the first country in the UK to ban the cage breeding of game birds – we are calling on the Welsh public to take our action and write to their MS and to come along to our events and make their voices heard.”
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