Surely grouse are a farmed species like many other creatures. You may not agree with the efficiency of the process,the restricted market it serves, or the method of slaughter, but it offers a far higher quality of life to the bird than that of a battery hen. Many acres of moorland has to offer more that being cramped in a cage with many others, in a factory farm.
   Perhaps we should raise them in a feedlot, so they may dine regularly. Perhaps off a table of astro turf.Then there would be no confusion over the artificiality of the environment they are raised in.