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DEER CARCASSES

The story about deer carcasses being lefton the hill (News, 15 July) left me open-mouthed. Almost every day since the start of lockdown two organisations, the Country Food Trust and the In It Together charity with HIS Church, have fought, struggled, begged and borrowed to feed the many thousands of children and adults suffering food poverty in the UK. Yet we are reading how estates are thinking of leaving carcasses on a hill to rot because game dealers will not pay more than £1 per kilo.

Even more staggering is the fact that the John Muir Trust – which, on its own website, claims to be an environmental organisation utilising the wild for the benefit of

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