The Animal Liberation Front cut fences, netting and a water pipe to release the birds into nearby woodland as part of their campaign to 'dismantle the shooting industry farm by farm, shoot by shoot'.
LUKE ANDREWS: ‘As many as 9,000 pheasants that could have been killed in a game shoot have been freed by animal rights activists. The Animal Liberation Front cut fences, netting and a water pipe to release the birds into nearby woodland at controversial Heath Hatcheries, Suffolk, as part of their campaign to ‘dismantle the shooting industry farm by farm, shoot by shoot’.
A spokesman for the ALF said: ‘Once inside the farm we went straight to the battery cages which were inside a fenced off area. ‘We could hear partridges but we could also see an expensive sensor based security system. We had to leave these partridges as we did not have the equipment with us to disable the alarm system.
‘We surveyed the 45 breeding pens for pheasants, then removed a panel from each one of these pens, herded the pheasants out into the corridor then further on and out of the farm directly into a wooded area. ‘Each pen contained around 200 birds, making the total around 9,000’… In 2015, the farm was investigated over allegations that their partridges were living in cramped metal boxes’. SOURCE…
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