Musgrave under fire over sale of squirrel meat

SUPERMARKET supplier Musgrave has come under fire in Britain for allowing one of its franchise operators to sell squirrel meat.

Viva — Vegetarians International Voice for Animals — has accused Musgrave-owned Budgens of supporting a “barbaric and needless cull” of grey squirrels by allowing an independently owned branch in Crouch End, north London, to sell the meat.

Viva founder Juliet Gellatley said: “Culls of thousands of grey squirrels by so-called conservation groups to boost populations of red squirrels are irrational, inhumane and destined to fail, so it is very sad that Budgens are allowing profit to be made from wildlife massacre.”