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Don't kill the Guga chicks !

category international | animal rights | other press author Tuesday October 28, 2008 15:02author by john and mary

Guga , young gannet chicks, are considered a delicacy by the villagers from Ness, on the Isle of Lewis .About this time every year boatloads of men from Ness sail thirty miles to the uninhabited island of Sula Sgeir, where thousands of gannets spend the summer nesting on cliff faces , to hunt /murder the young guga.
The animal rights group Advocates for Animals is trying to get the hunt banned in the European Court . The group’s campaign director Ross Minnet told the London Independent last Saturday "The brutal and totally unnecessary guga hunt belongs back in the dark ages and has no place in a modern, 21st-century Scotland. It belongs in the pages of history books.”

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a challenge for poets
author by john and marypublication date Tue Oct 28, 2008 15:51author address author phone

Almost as nauseating as the guga hunt itself , a Lewis poet, Donald S Murray , has written a book called The Guga Hunters in which he gives “an intimate portrayal” of the hunter/murderers whose story he claims has never been heard. Seemingly no poet will dare give voice to the strangled cry of the guga chicks.

Well done Mary!
author by ARAN - Animal Rights Action Networkpublication date Tue Oct 28, 2008 19:55author address author phone

Mary, well done for all you are doing to help animals and ARAN love you SOOOOOOOOOOO much! good luck on Wednesday.

Steph

Guga taste good
author by Skigersta manpublication date Mon Nov 10, 2008 15:29author address author phone

You have to taste the guga to enjoy the bird!

A Passing Comment
author by Mr Manpublication date Mon Dec 01, 2008 22:30author address author phone

I dont see how this is a big deal. Is it endangered or something? Otherwise its just hunting for food, I mean people eat millions of chickens every day.

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