Letters: Grouse shooting is brutal animal cruelty and needs to be banned

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Might as well say all meat eating is animal cruelty and farming is plant cruelty. Maybe we could all live on water and algae, wait that is cruelty to algae

All this would do is see a sharp rise in poaching

Well you’ve all chucked every other tradition down the toilet. Might as well take away all hunting so no more need for hunting rifles eh? Sure you’re thinking it.

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