It is illegal to eat pheasant. The specific analysis is as follows:

1. Pheasants are wild animals and are protected by law;

2. Catching pheasants is illegal, and administrative penalties will be imposed for minor cases; for more serious cases, , may be suspected of constituting the crime of illegal hunting;

3. The crime of illegal hunting refers to violating hunting regulations, hunting in protected areas, closed periods, or using prohibited tools or methods, destroying rare birds and animals, or Other wildlife resources, serious behavior.

Whoever eats a pheasant shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than five years or criminal detention and shall also be fined. If the circumstances are serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than five years but not more than 10 years and shall also be fined;

Illegal hunting Anyone who kills rare or endangered wild animals under special state protection, or illegally purchases, transports, or sells rare or endangered wild animals under special state protection and their products shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than five years or criminal detention, and shall also be fined.

To sum up, pheasants are national second-level protected animals and cannot be eaten. If you hunt and kill them, you need to apply for a special hunting license. If you don’t have one and have been killing it, and you have repeatedly tried to correct your mistakes, it will constitute a crime. .

Legal basis:

Article 341 of the Criminal Law

Whoever illegally hunts or kills precious and endangered wild animals under key national protection shall Anyone who illegally purchases, transports or sells precious and endangered wild animals and their products under special state protection shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than five years or criminal detention, and shall also be fined; if the circumstances are serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than five years but not more than 10 years and shall also be fined. fine; if the circumstances are particularly serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than ten years and shall also be fined or his property shall be confiscated. Anyone who violates hunting regulations by hunting in a protected area or hunting period or using prohibited tools or methods and destroying wild animal resources, if the circumstances are serious, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, criminal detention, control, or a fine. Anyone who violates wildlife protection and management regulations and illegally hunts, purchases, transports, or sells terrestrial wild animals that naturally grow and reproduce in the wild environment other than those specified in the first paragraph for the purpose of consumption, if the circumstances are serious, shall be punished in accordance with the provisions of the preceding paragraph.