There is a deep cynicism at the heart of the shooting industry. The same estates that advertise days in pursuit of wild, free-flying birds – charging their clients thousands of pounds for the privilege – often source those birds from breeding stock that have spent months in cages.
Pheasants and partridges used for egg production spend a large part of their adult lives held in what are known as ‘raised laying units’: raised cages. They spend months suspended above the earth in wire mesh cages, never making contact with soil, leaf litter, grass or anything that might connect them to the natural world they are being sold as representing.
This is a business decision. Cramming as many birds into as little space as possible. And the birds pay for it with their physical and mental health every single day.
A pheasant is not a domesticated animal. Thousands of years of selective breeding have not dulled a pheasant’s instincts or reshaped a pheasant’s needs.
These are birds that have evolved to forage. To scratch at the earth, turn over leaves, and investigate their surroundings. A pheasant makes hundreds of small decisions every day about where to go, what to eat and how to interact with other birds. These are not optional extras in a pheasant’s life – they are the behaviours that define them. Remove them, and you do not have a pheasant living a reduced life. You have an animal in a state of chronic deprivation.
And that is precisely what the raised cage does. It removes everything. The wire mesh floor means the birds cannot scratch, cannot dustbathe, cannot forage. The cage dimensions mean they cannot move freely, cannot escape conflict with other birds, cannot make any meaningful choice about how to spend their time.
In their glossy video Heart of England talk about how they have ‘enriched’ the birds’ environment. Enrichment is apparently a piece of wood. There is no complexity.
There is just feed, water, and wire. And a bit of timber.
Here’s a screenshot from the Heart of England Farms promotional video. But this is only part of the story.
These birds, non-native Red-legged or French Partridges, will spend months in the cages before being boxed up, trucked to a shooting estate, and put in front of the guns…
This is sensory and behavioural poverty on an industrial scale, imposed on creatures that are, by the shooting industry’s own proud description, wild.
The consequences of caging are not theoretical. They are visible, documented and deeply disturbing. Crowded, unstimulated birds under chronic stress do what stressed, bored animals do: they turn on each other. Feather pecking, aggression and injurious behaviour are endemic in these systems.
The industry’s response to this suffering has not been to question whether the cages themselves are the problem. Instead, it has reached for a technological fix. Beak guards — plastic devices attached to a bird’s face to prevent it from inflicting wounds — are routinely fitted to pheasants and partridges in cage systems like these. Saddles are strapped to the backs of hens to protect them from the damage caused by repeated, stressed mating in confined spaces.
We will be examining these practices in detail in the coming weeks, because they deserve far more scrutiny than they have ever received. What they represent is not about animal welfare or animal care. They are damage limitation tools applied to animals that should never have been put in these conditions in the first place.
None of this can be fixed with a welfare code. None of it can be addressed through voluntary guidelines or industry pledges to do better.
The raised cage is not a flawed version of an acceptable system — it is the definition of a system that should not exist.
The shooting industry has spent decades hiding this reality behind images of rolling countryside and talk of conservation and stewardship. It has sold a fantasy of wildness while operating an infrastructure of confinement that would generate public outrage if it were applied to any other species.
That outrage is overdue. This industry does not need reform. It needs to be held to account for what it actually is — and what it has been allowed to be, in plain sight, for far too long.
At Heart of England Farms in Warwickshire, our undercover investigator found something even more shocking: colony cages — cages arranged in long rows and stacked three levels high, housing birds at every tier. The inevitable consequence of this arrangement is as straightforward as it is appalling: the birds on the upper levels defecate onto the birds confined directly below them. There is nowhere to move. There is no escape. The birds on the lower tiers simply endure it.
The noise in the shed where these cages are housed is overwhelming. But Heart of England has tried to promote these hellish cages as an improvement, a step forward. The level of suffering they are attempting to whitewash has to be seen to be believed.
In our upcoming Substack posts, we will be taking a detailed look at these colony cage systems. It is not easy to look at, but PLEASE don’t turn away. The birds are counting on us.
All images are screenshots recorded by our undercover investigator at Heart of England. All of these cages were in use at the time of filming in 2025.
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End Bird Shooting
Over the coming months our campaign will look at the shooting industry at every level. We will highlight the suppliers — the farms, hatcheries, importers and breeders producing tens of millions of birds under conditions that would provoke public outcry if applied to any other animal. We will expose the providers — the estates and syndicates that take those factory-farmed birds and sell the experience of killing them as leisure. And we will look at the clients — the paying guns who are fully aware of the wildlife crime, the trapping of native predators, and the mass suffering involved, and who have decided that none of it is reason enough to stay away.
This industry survives because suppliers supply, providers provide, and clients pay. We intend to examine them all.
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The Biden rule would have empowered unelected federal bureaucrats and outside activist groups to lock up vast stretches of public land under so-called “conservation leasing” schemes that threatened grazing, mining, recreation, and energy development across the West. In reality, this policy was nothing more than a federal land grab disguised as environmental stewardship. Rural communities throughout Arizona and the West rightly feared the rule would devastate local economies, destroy jobs, weaken domestic energy production, and undermine the livelihoods of families who have responsibly used these lands for generations.
By overturning this deeply flawed rule, the Trump Administration and BLM restored common sense and reaffirmed that public lands must be managed under the principle of multiple use and sustained yield — balancing conservation with grazing, recreation, mineral development, energy production, and other productive uses. The rescission also removes burdensome regulations and litigation traps that slowed land management decisions and empowered radical environmental activists to obstruct nearly every project on federal lands.
Arizona communities rely heavily on access to public lands for economic opportunity, recreation, ranching, and energy security. I applaud the Administration for standing up to extremist environmental agendas and putting the interests of the American people, rural communities, and western states first.
This matters for Arizona because very little land in our state is available for private ownership or development. Some estimates show that between 82% and 87% of Arizona land is controlled by government entities when including federal land, tribal land, state trust land, state parks, and local government property. Once you see how much land is controlled by the federal government, it becomes clear why eliminating the BLM rule and other restrictive land-use policies is so important for Arizona’s future.
Gosar Questions Secretary Burgum on LASSO Act and Energy Dominance
This week, I had the opportunity to question Interior Secretary Doug Burgum during a House Natural Resources Committee oversight hearing on the Department of the Interior’s Fiscal Year 2027 budget and the future of American energy production.
During the hearing, I discussed my legislation, the Land and Social Security Optimization (LASSO) Act, H.R. 34,which directs a portion of revenues generated from responsible public land use into the Social Security Trust Fund. My bill ensures that activities already taking place on federal lands — including energy production, livestock grazing, and timber harvesting — help strengthen Social Security for retirees, surviving spouses, and working Americans who have paid into the system their entire lives.
I also thanked Secretary Burgum for rescinding the Biden Administration’s disastrous BLM Conservation and Landscape Health Rule, which attempted to lock up millions of acres of public land from productive use. As I noted above, public lands belong to the American people and should be managed under the longstanding multiple-use doctrine, not controlled by radical environmental ideologues seeking to block domestic energy development and economic growth.
The LASSO Act is a commonsense, win-win solution that supports American energy dominance, strengthens Social Security, and restores responsible management of our nation’s public lands without expanding development or increasing fees on existing activities.
Honoring America’s Fallen Heroes During National Police Week
This week, during National Police Week, I took to the House floor to honor the brave law enforcement officers across our nation who made the ultimate sacrifice in the line of duty. These heroes put on the badge each day knowing the risks, yet continued serving their communities with courage, honor, and selflessness.
I was especially proud to recognize two fallen Arizona heroes: Officer Gabriel M. Facio of the Apache Junction Police Department and Deputy Shawn A. Braaten of the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office. Their sacrifice, and the sacrifice of all fallen officers, will never be forgotten.
During my remarks, I also spoke out against the dangerous anti-police rhetoric and soft-on-crime policies being pushed by Democrat politicians and radical voices on the Left that have emboldened criminals and undermined public safety. America is safer because of the brave men and women in law enforcement, including our Border Patrol agents who work tirelessly to defend our sovereignty and keep dangerous criminals, drugs, and human traffickers out of our country. Congress must ensure these brave agents and officers have the funding, resources, and support they need to do their jobs safely and effectively.
I will always unapologetically stand with the men and women who protect and serve our communities.
I was honored this week to receive the 2025 “Taxpayers’ Friend Award” from the National Taxpayers Union for my voting record in Congress defending taxpayers, supporting lower taxes, and fighting for limited government.
At a time when Washington continues piling trillions onto our national debt and wasting taxpayer dollars, I remain committed to standing up for hardworking American families who expect fiscal responsibility from their elected officials. Every dollar the federal government spends first comes from the pockets of the American people, and I believe Congress has a duty to spend wisely, cut waste, and protect economic freedom.
The National Taxpayers Union reviews every congressional vote related to taxes, spending, trade, and regulation as part of its annual “Rates Congress” scorecard. I am proud to once again be recognized for consistently voting to rein in government spending, oppose reckless deficits, and put taxpayers first.
Fauci’s Web of Deception Betrayed the American People
For years, Anthony Fauci wrapped himself in the language of “science” while intimidating critics, silencing dissent, and misleading the American people about the origins of COVID-19. Now, explosive sworn testimony before a Senate committee this week from inside the CIA suggests what millions of Americans long feared was true: Fauci was not merely wrong — he was actively involved in steering intelligence assessments away from the lab-leak theory in order to protect himself, his allies, and the reckless gain-of-function research enterprise he helped finance.
As both a Member of Congress and a practicing dentist for more than 25 years, I understand the immense responsibility medical professionals carry when communicating with the public during a health crisis. Patients place their trust in doctors because truthful medical information can calm fears, save lives, and help families make informed decisions. Fauci shattered that trust. Instead of transparency, Americans got manipulation. Instead of honesty, they got carefully orchestrated propaganda from unelected bureaucrats desperate to protect their reputations.
CIA operations officer James Erdman testified before the Senate Homeland Security Committee that Fauci intentionally interfered with intelligence community deliberations regarding COVID-19’s origins. According to Erdman, Fauci used the weight of his office to pressure analysts and stack the deck with hand-selected “experts” who were already committed to the politically convenient natural-origin narrative. This was not objective science. It was narrative control masquerading as public health.
Even more alarming, Erdman testified that CIA leadership allegedly overruled experienced analysts and conducted a secretive “middle-of-the-night” rewrite of an internal lab-leak assessment. Analysts who resisted the pressure campaign were reportedly marginalized and retaliated against. If true, this was not simply bureaucratic misconduct — it was a calculated deception carried out during one of the deadliest global crises in modern history.
The American people endured lockdowns, censorship, ruined businesses, shuttered churches, forced masking, coerced vaccinations, and years of fear while Fauci stood at podiums pretending to be the embodiment of scientific integrity. Meanwhile, behind closed doors, he and his allies were allegedly manipulating intelligence findings to conceal the possibility that the virus originated from the very Wuhan lab connected to U.S.-funded research.
This scandal reaches far beyond one man’s ego. It represents a catastrophic collapse of public trust in our medical, scientific, and intelligence institutions. Americans were mocked as conspiracy theorists simply for asking questions that now appear entirely justified. Big Tech companies censored dissenting voices. Corporate media outlets acted like public relations firms for Fauci and the federal bureaucracy. Careers were destroyed for daring to challenge the approved narrative.
And now, after years of obfuscation, Fauci may escape accountability entirely. The statute of limitations tied to his alleged false statements to Congress has reportedly expired, while Joe Biden’s sweeping pardon operation insulated Fauci from additional criminal exposure tied to gain-of-function testimony. Washington protects its own.
The fact that every Democrat on the committee boycotted the hearing speaks volumes. Rather than confront the testimony head-on, the CIA dismissed the proceedings as “political theater,” a tired deflection from agencies more interested in self-preservation than truth.
The American people deserve a full accounting of who knew what, when they knew it, and how far federal agencies went to suppress the truth. Senator Rand Paul and Senator Ron Johnson are right to demand a sweeping investigation into the corruption, collusion, and abuse that infected both the intelligence apparatus and the public health establishment during the pandemic.
Anthony Fauci spent years lecturing Americans about “following the science.” If these allegations are true, he was really following one thing above all else: protecting himself.
Fauci lied. People died.
ICE Findings Expose Massive Fraud in the OPT Program
The OPT program was originally intended to provide temporary work experience for foreign students studying in the United States. Instead, it has evolved into a shadow guest-worker pipeline that incentivizes abuse and undercuts American graduates trying to enter the workforce. Companies benefit because OPT workers are exempt from certain payroll taxes, making foreign labor cheaper than hiring American citizens. At the same time, weak enforcement and lax verification standards have created enormous opportunities for fraud, as evidenced by ICE uncovering thousands of participants connected to questionable or fake employers.
This is not just an economic issue — it is also a serious matter of immigration enforcement and national security. The American people deserve to know that individuals participating in visa programs are tied to legitimate employers and are complying with the law. When thousands of participants cannot even be connected to credible workplaces, it demonstrates that the program has spiraled out of control.
That is why I introduced legislation to completely rescind the OPT program.America’s immigration system should prioritize American workers, American wages, and American graduates—not multinational corporations looking for cheaper labor through visa loopholes. These latest findings make it clear that Congress must act immediately to end this broken program and put American jobs first.
Gosar Offers Support to Wickenburg Following Jones Fire
This week, the Wickenburg community faced a dangerous brush fire that forced evacuations, damaged property, and temporarily shut down portions of U.S. 60 as first responders worked tirelessly to contain the rapidly spreading Jones Fire.
As the Congressman representing Wickenburg, I have remained in close contact with local officials throughout this emergency. I personally spoke with Mayor Bratcher to offer my prayers and support for the families impacted by the fire, especially those who have lost homes or been forced to evacuate. Wickenburg is a strong community, and I stand with every resident during this difficult time.
I also want to thank the firefighters, law enforcement officers, emergency personnel, utility crews, and volunteers working around the clock to protect lives and property. Their courage and dedication are deeply appreciated.
Importantly, my District Director, Penny Pew, has also been in constant contact with the mayor’s office, and my staff and I will continue coordinating closely with local leaders throughout the response and recovery effort. My office stands ready to assist however possible, including helping coordinate with federal agencies and ensuring Wickenburg receives the support and resources the community needs moving forward.
Fortunately, recovery and containment efforts surrounding the Jones Fire have now reached a successful conclusion. As of 3:00 PM on Friday, May 15, the fire was 100% contained at 84 acres. The cause of the Jones Fire remains under investigation.
Residents are still encouraged to follow all updates to help keep families, communities, and first responders safe.
Casework Spotlight: Helping a Kingman Veteran Overcome VA Debt
After years of trying to resolve a mounting issue with the Department of Veterans Affairs and feeling increasingly hopeless, Kingman veteran Richard Mickle turned to my office for help. Richard had been facing more than $63,000 in VA debt that threatened his financial stability despite living on limited means and dedicating much of his time to helping fellow veterans in his community.
My office worked directly with the VA to review the case and request a waiver on Richard’s behalf. As a result, the waiver was approved and the debt was successfully resolved, bringing long-overdue relief to a deserving veteran.
If you or your family are experiencing problems with a federal agency, my office may be able to help. Constituents needing assistance are encouraged to contact my district office at 623-707-0530 for support navigating federal agencies and services.
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