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

Dinner guest turned judge
BASC member Mike Medcalf shares his experience attending a new cross-sea cooking competition and reflects on what it was like to serve as a judge for the evening.

Welsh students triumph in cross-sea game culinary challenge
A group of Welsh college students claimed victory in the second round of a unique game-based culinary and hospitality competition spanning the Irish Sea.

Tony Singh announced as BASC wild food ambassador
BASC and Eat Game are thrilled to announce celebrated chef Tony Singh MBE as their new wild food ambassador.
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The latest news from BASC

Minister hails £246m natural capital contribution from Scottish shooting
Scotland’s shooting sector delivers more than £246 million in annual natural capital benefits, according to a new report launched by BASC at the Scottish Game Fair on 4 July.

Lead ammunition restrictions – your questions answered
Read our answers to frequently asked questions about the planned lead ammunition legislation and what it means for shotgun, rifle and airgun shooters.

BASC response to government announcement on lead ammunition ban
Read BASC’s statement in response to the Government’s announcement regarding restrictions on the sale and use of lead ammunition.