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

Finalists announced for 2026 Eat Game Awards
The Eat Game Awards celebrate the chefs, butchers, retailers and rising stars bringing British wild game to the table.

A Game Christmas
Try our three fabulous game recipes by Rachel Green this Christmas, perfect for any table over the festive season.

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.
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The latest news from BASC

NPCC figures expose widespread firearms licensing failures, says BASC
New figures from the National Police Chiefs’ Council expose worsening and widespread failures in firearms licensing departments across England and Wales.

Finalists announced for 2026 Eat Game Awards
The Eat Game Awards celebrate the chefs, butchers, retailers and rising stars bringing British wild game to the table.

Positive PCC and police talks signal progress on firearms licensing backlogs
BASC was joined by representatives of other leading rural organisations to discuss firearms licensing with Suffolk and Norfolk police.

