The swan
was 'massively underweight'
Hilary
Mitchell
Daniel
Morrow
14:38, 3
FEB 2019
UPDATED15:04,
3 FEB 2019
A rescue
charity is urging members of the public to continue feed bread to swans after
one bird was found ‘starved to death’.
Swan
Support attempted to rescue a malnourished swan they found to have weighed just
four kilogrammes in a lake on Thursday, January 24.
Workers
at the charity attempted to rescue the young swan, but it had sadly died before
it could be properly treated.
Now, the
charity has blamed the death of the Hampshire swan on a campaign that called
for members of the public to stop feeding them bread.
A leading
food brand called WildThings teamed up with rescue charity Swan Lifeline to
create the ‘Ban the Bread’ campaign in May 2018.
The
campaign claimed that bread can cause muscles to grow to quickly causing a
condition called ‘angel wing’ which can result in swans being unable to fly.
It was
also said that bread causes a wide range of additional problems, such as
damaging changes to their natural ecosystem.
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