10/06/2026
The screenshots below show something I found quite surprising.
Just a few hours after I emailed Food Standards Scotland with an attached PDF outlining concerns about food safety, public health, and the apparent lack of monitoring or transparency regarding zoonotic disease risks associated with handling and consuming seabirds that have recently been devastated by bird flu, a Senior Scientific Adviser from Food Standards Scotland appeared on my Abolish the Guga Hunt page publicly defending the hunt.
Although I have yet to receive a response to my email, he was quick to jump onto our page and show his support for NatureScot.
Is a Senior Scientific Adviser at Food Standards Scotland primarily concerned with protecting public health, or with supporting the very activity that those concerns relate to?