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
Cast your vote in the Eat Game Awards 2025
The shortlist has been unveiled and voting opened for the 2025 Eat Game Awards, spotlighting the best in game cookery, promotion and innovation.
A Game Christmas
BASC wild food and Eat Game ambassador Rachel Green shares three new Christmas game recipes worthy of any table over the festive period.
A day to remember for young shots in Ashbourne
Murray Woodward remarks on a memorable young shots driven day in Ashbourne, Derbyshire.
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Top-venting blank firing gun amnesty
The amnesty for top-venting blank firing guns, being held due to the increased use of converted guns of this type in crime, runs from 3-28 February.
Do your bit in the fight for a fair deal on firearms licensing fees
Writing to your MP is top of the list in terms of what you can you do to assist BASC and other rural organisations fighting for a fair deal on firearms licensing fees.
BASC welcomes changes to deer season proposal in Scotland
BASC has welcomed the Scottish Government’s decision to halt its proposed changes to the female deer management season.