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

Last chance to nominate for Eat Game Awards 2026
Eat Game Award nominations close on 14 December, giving you just over a week to put forward the chefs, producers and businesses who champion game on the plate.

Food for thought: An expert’s advice on good game handling
Nick Lister of Ox Close Fine Foods explains to BASC’s Julia Newman how to get game to the table in the best possible condition.

BASC game masterclass inspires future chefs
BASC’s game masterclass at Coleg Cambria gave participants the chance to cook with game and discover the versatility of wild, sustainable ingredients.
Game handling guide
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Gamebird release restrictions dropped in latest stage of Natural Environment Bill
Attempts to restrict or licence gamebird release in Scotland have been dropped during the latest stage of the Natural Environment Bill.

BASC at Crufts 2026: Meet the judges
BASC is delighted to announce that Raymond Holt, Jeremy Organ and Megan Fox will judge BASC’s working gundog classes at Crufts 2026.

Last chance to nominate for Eat Game Awards 2026
Eat Game Award nominations close on 14 December, giving you just over a week to put forward the chefs, producers and businesses who champion game on the plate.

