Dear John

Earlier this year, our undercover investigators visited a game bird farm in
Suffolk, and found row upon row of pheasants and partridges, confined to cages,
desperately trying to escape. The sight of dead birds littered the ground
nearby.

We filmed partridges, imprisoned in barren metal boxes, without any enrichment.
The stress and anxiety that these birds must experience is unimaginable – and
their trauma is visible by the way that they repeatedly fly up into their cage
roofs, in a futile attempt to free themselves.

We have all experienced the heat of this summer, but it is horrific to think of
being in a barren metal box in soaring temperatures, with no means of escape.

Our cameras also captured scenes of cramped cages, containing several female
pheasants and one male. The females had ‘shrouds’ over their beaks – used by
game bird farmers to stop the birds from attacking each other – but if anything
these cruel contraptions make the birds more anxious. Many of the pheasants had
painful looking bare skin from the loss of their feathers.

We are campaigning at political and public levels to ban these cages as part of
our overall campaign to see an end to the killing of animals for so-called
sport.

The pheasant shooting season is about to commence on 1 October – so please lend
your support to our campaign by doing these two quick actions:

1. Sign our petition: [link removed]
2. Write to your MP calling for an end to the cages:
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Thank you,

Fiona
Campaign Manager
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