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"Nutty flavoured" squirrel pie, anyone...?
From today's Metro:
A Budgens grocery store in Crouch End, North London is currently selling squirrel meat for £3 each and campaigners claim it is committing ‘wildlife massacre’.
Vegetarians International Voice for Animals (Viva) says Budges are supporting a ‘barbaric and needles cull’ of grey squirrels by allowing the independently-owned Budgens branch to sell the meat.
Viva’s founder Juliet Gellatley said: ‘Culls’ of thousands of grey squirrels by so-called conservation groups to boost populations of red squirrels are irrational, inhumane and destined to fail, so it is very sad that Budges are allowing profit to be made from wildlife massacre.’
Actress and fellow Viva patron Jenny Seagrove also spoke out against the new line of meat, saying it was ‘unbelievable’.
‘Anyone who cares about wildlife, as I do, should be appalled at Budgens for allowing this.’
The popular woodland creatures, which are also a tourist attraction in London parks, were once a staple of the national diet and made into soups, pies and casseroles.
They are said to have a nutty flavour but taste similar to rabbit, and have also been recently sold in various butchers.
One butcher, who sells the meat in Walton, Somerset, sells ten squirrels per week for less than £3 each and told the Daily Mail that customers try it through novelty but come back and buy more.
A spokesperson from Musgrave, which operates Budgens, told the newspaper: ‘As our retailers are independent, they therefore have both the right and ability to secure products that Budgens do not offer for sale, within their individually-owned stores.
A Budgens grocery store in Crouch End, North London is currently selling squirrel meat for £3 each and campaigners claim it is committing ‘wildlife massacre’.
Vegetarians International Voice for Animals (Viva) says Budges are supporting a ‘barbaric and needles cull’ of grey squirrels by allowing the independently-owned Budgens branch to sell the meat.
Viva’s founder Juliet Gellatley said: ‘Culls’ of thousands of grey squirrels by so-called conservation groups to boost populations of red squirrels are irrational, inhumane and destined to fail, so it is very sad that Budges are allowing profit to be made from wildlife massacre.’
Actress and fellow Viva patron Jenny Seagrove also spoke out against the new line of meat, saying it was ‘unbelievable’.
‘Anyone who cares about wildlife, as I do, should be appalled at Budgens for allowing this.’
The popular woodland creatures, which are also a tourist attraction in London parks, were once a staple of the national diet and made into soups, pies and casseroles.
They are said to have a nutty flavour but taste similar to rabbit, and have also been recently sold in various butchers.
One butcher, who sells the meat in Walton, Somerset, sells ten squirrels per week for less than £3 each and told the Daily Mail that customers try it through novelty but come back and buy more.
A spokesperson from Musgrave, which operates Budgens, told the newspaper: ‘As our retailers are independent, they therefore have both the right and ability to secure products that Budgens do not offer for sale, within their individually-owned stores.
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Permalink Reply by Dick Harris on
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Budgens would be welcome to trap squirrels in my garden. It is no surprise to me that squirrel meat is said to be nut flavoured; for several years they have routinely stripped my walnut tree bare and they also do quite a bit of damage to fruit and bulbs. In the early 1980s we used to get a large sackful of nuts each year and we never saw a squirrel. These pests appeared around 1988/9 and have become a damn nuisance. Pretty they may be but like most other wild life they expand to inhabit ecological niches that are largely determined by our own activities. I don't grow fruit and nuts for the benefit of squirrels and, as I can't prevent them entering my space, I am in favour of seeing them controlled.
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Permalink Reply by james walsh on
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dickharris. Your walnut tree, do you whack the trunk with a cricket bat ? You're supposed to if you want it to produce nuts. (i'm really serious)
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Permalink Reply by Hugh on
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This was just picked up by BBC London. The item focussed on Budgen's Crouch End and a restaurant in East Dulwich that serves squirrel as a speciality.
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