Wild food
Healthy, packed with flavour and easy to cook, wild game meat is the ultimate free-range ingredient for your table.
What is wild food
Game as food is indisputably one of the key justifications for game shooting. Therefore, promoting the benefits of eating more game as a sustainable and healthy alternative to farmed meat is an important part of BASC’s work.
To deliver our vision, we bring together partners from shooting and food production/marketing organisations to ensure game meat is recognised as a healthy alternative protein source.
We also support other sectors of the food industry through sponsorship, particularly where we can encourage adding value to game such as charcuterie, butchery and pie making.
Shooters need to promote and eat game meat to ensure the future of shooting. This means eating what you shoot and sharing it with others, perhaps by gifting game to friends and family, or cooking a dish which features game meat.Â
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Wild food features

BASC North field to fork is the best of days
A group of BASC members enjoyed a day of clay shooting with tuition recently, followed by the chance to prepare, cook and eat wild game.

Science matters: do you know the value of wild venison?
Conversations around food sustainability are growing louder in many parts of the world, presenting an opportunity for wild British game, writes Sophie Stafford.

Watch: Game for racing
Watch what happened when we cooked a game breakfast for the team at the yard of top National Hunt racehorse trainer, Fergal O’Brien.
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