• Refrigerated trucks could become a familiar site on Scottish grouse moors, if EEC bureaucrats get their way.
18th August 1988, Page 24
18th August 1988
Page 24
Page 24, 18th August 1988
— • Refrigerated trucks could become a familiar site on Scottish grouse moors, if EEC bureaucrats get their way.
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One week after the "Glorious Twelfth" of August, which heralds the start of the grouse shooting season, draft proposals from the EEC could mean every bird destined for the dinner table having to be chilled, plucked and gutted immediately.
Red-faced lairds and colonels everywhere are huffing and puffing with fury. The proposed rules would mean grouse could not be hung for ages to make them "authentically gamey", they claim.