Ruffled feathers in fight over pigeon shooting
Posted: Thu, Sep. 27, 2012
Samantha Melamed
City Paper
Evan M. Lopez
On crisp fall weekends on the banks of the Delaware River in Bensalem, sportsmen gather at the Philadelphia Gun Club and enjoy an activity their forebears have shared for 135 years: Releasing pigeons into the air, and then shooting them dead.
For at least two dozen of those years, animal-rights activists have been trying — and, generally, failing — to stop them. Now, a settlement with an environmental group could put a wrinkle in a practice so far untouched by lawsuits, animal-cruelty citations, public-shaming campaigns and legislative efforts. Or, then again, it might not.
