WELSH GOAT HUNT STIRS DISGUST
A Welsh hunting agency is under fire after offering tourists the chance to shoot mountain goats for up to $1,700 a head in what one politician called a “depraved” shilling for business.
Animal rights campaigners and a Welsh MP told the Daily Post the offer “smacks of a sickening lust for blood.”
Wild goat culls are sanctioned by Welsh authorities to control their numbers, and Owen Beardsmore, the man behind the company offering the deal, said he is doing nothing illegal by carrying out the shoots on “private farms.”
“We shot old billys and took old ones out to better the herd ... . Some people don’t like it,” he said.
Beardsmore said he was no longer offering the shoots, but the Post quoted a text conversation saying the firm was “fully booked” for 2018.