The Royalist - Now Juan Carlos Is Told: 'Shut Up'

Now Juan Carlos Is Told: 'Shut Up'

Written by Joanne Leyland

Sunday, 02 March 2008

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Furthermore, Juan Carlos has also been in contact with the Spanish Hunting Federation, an organisation which shares his view that lead pellets are not a threat to the bird population.

Opponents claim thousands of birds are unnecessarily killed because they swallow the cartridges after mistaking them for food.

Condemning the Head of State’s latest incursion into the political arena, Theo Oberhuber, co-ordinator of Ecologists in Action, says: "It is lamentable that the King has used his influence and spent time which costs the tax payer to help his friends in the hunting lobby. Hunting is not something that many people in Spain are interested in."

The controversy has led to further public debate about the way in which the Royal Family is funded by the State, with Joan Puig, of the nationalist Esquerra Republicana Catalana party arguing: "We do not want to pay from the public purse for the King to go hunting protected animals."

Responding to what is just the latest in an increasing number of controversies to hit the royal House of Bourbon, an official at the Royal Palace says only: "The King is a hunter but also has a great interest in the environment, and this was his interest in the matter."

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Name: valmae

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I would have thought lead was the worse thing to use to kill an animal. Years ago we stopped using lead pipes for plumbing because of the danger of poisoning. Can't help thinking that an animal that survived a shot could die from the bullet's poison and just how sensible is it eat an animal that has been killed in this way?

I didn't know that Juan Carlos had accidentally shot his brother. It should have put him off guns.

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Name: Monika	Comment: "If Labour ever bans hunting I might as well leave the country and spend my life skiing." A bit of a 'me' factor in that statement.

Name: Emily Elizabeth Windsor-Cragg	Comment: Edward the Seventh thought hunting was "it." It appears to be a compulsion to "control" the environment. I'm glad that's over. Now how do we rein in the Corporations, just as well, for their depredations? EEWC

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