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
Game in the kitchen
BASC regional officer Matt Dutton updates on his team’s work to educate future chefs about the benefits of using wild game as an ingredient.
Field to fork insurance for recreational hunter gatherers
BASC’s South East regional director, Michelle Nudds, looks at what BASC’s insurance means for modern hunter gatherers.
Top Mann! Joe Mann crowned Champion of Champions at Eat Game Awards 2024
Among the worthy winners at this year’s Eat Game Awards was Joe Mann from Queen’s College in Taunton, who was awarded Champion of Champions on the night.
Game handling guide
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Defra reviewing GL45 in light of reduction of AI risk
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BASC and Natural England talk wildfowling
Since the start of 2024, BASC has organised three Introduction to Wildfowling workshops for Natural England staff.
Project Titanium
BASC’s head of firearms, Martin Parker, provides an update on Project Titanium, which seeks to identify evidence of domestic violence by potential certificate holders.