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Don't kill the Guga chicks !
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Tuesday October 28, 2008 15:02 by john and mary
Guga , young gannet chicks, are considered a delicacy by the villagers from Ness, on the Isle of Lewis .About this time every year boatloads of men from Ness sail thirty miles to the uninhabited island of Sula Sgeir, where thousands of gannets spend the summer nesting on cliff faces , to hunt /murder the young guga. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/poet-....html |
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Jump To Comment: 4 3 2 1I dont see how this is a big deal. Is it endangered or something? Otherwise its just hunting for food, I mean people eat millions of chickens every day.
You have to taste the guga to enjoy the bird!
Mary, well done for all you are doing to help animals and ARAN love you SOOOOOOOOOOO much! good luck on Wednesday.
Steph
Almost as nauseating as the guga hunt itself , a Lewis poet, Donald S Murray , has written a book called The Guga Hunters in which he gives “an intimate portrayal” of the hunter/murderers whose story he claims has never been heard. Seemingly no poet will dare give voice to the strangled cry of the guga chicks.