Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The bird in cage 34 is mute. Its owner looks anguished; he is screaming and gesticulating in a desperate bid to get the bird to sing.

Helpless game birds are being reared in “abominable” battery-style cages in preparation for the annual shooting season. Thousands of pairs of partridges on one farm are locked up in small barren boxes ...