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Phil Spencer faces fresh backlash over trophy hunting past as he appears on This Morning

Location Location Location's Phil Spencer was on This Morning today, and the hashtag was flooded with complaints about his hunting past

“Around 100,000 deer are culled in the UK each year, not purely related to crop protection, but this is an absolutely necessary precaution against over-population. “But I would also hope that anyone who enjoys eating any type of meat stops to appreciate that their chicken, sheep, cow, pig etc also had to die in order to end up on their dinner plate – and almost certainly had a less fulfilling life than this wild fallow buck did,” he concluded. As he prepared to host the phone-in with TV wife Kirstie, another posted: “I’m going to ring in to ask why Phil trophy hunt.”

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