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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mickr" data-source="post: 3387286" data-attributes="member: 26026">I would guess that the number of people who actually work on driven grouse moors is not as great as often gets mentioned.It has also been highlighted that if as many people work on them as claimed and the money they claim to put into the rural economy is correct then people are being paid below the legal minimum wage.A shoot close to me claims to only have 8 days driven grouse shooting per year so again, the numbers working on grouse moors seems to be a bit of an exaggeration.Even if they employ 20 beaters per shoot the numbers are low at 160 working days, that's about 7 months’ work for 1 person.  It’s less than the working hours of a corner shop and we all subsidise this.  It would be really interesting how much these jobs are costing in subsidies to these grouse moors.  My guess is that a lot of the money goes into the rich landowners pockets.  The grouse moors are not run to employ people, they are run to make rich people richer and to make rich customers happy that they’ve managed to kill a lot of innocent birds and mammals for fun.As for what will they do, certain places in Scotland make a lot of money from wildlife tourism.  I don’t see why grouse moors which can become wildlife havens can’t do the same thing.</blockquote>