Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Cameron Bringing in Foxhunting By Back Door | |
Posted by: | Vanessa Smith | |
Date/Time: | 09/07/15 15:42:00 |
"Whatever Labour (or anyone else say) the original ban was all about class war and "payback" for the miners strike, than anything to do with animal welfare. The act was a massive fudge, with loopholes big enough to drive a coach and four through. I lived in the country before I moved to London, and now I'm back in the country with my house bordering on farmland. Foxes are unquestionably a pest to those with livestock, and a pest that needs to be controlled. Now, are they best controlled by charging across the countryside on horseback? I would say not, but the fact remains that they will be killed/culled/controlled realistically all that is being debated is the method." I've heard some tripe, but the hunting ban being payback for the miner's strike really is ridiculous. I don't think many people would have a problem with foxes being culled in a humane way, the argument is the cruelty that hunting exposes them to, the act was never strong enough I agree. But when I read of people taking fox cubs from their mothers and keeping them in barns that just so happen to be near a hunt and the hounds, then I do think that the piffle about too many foxes may just be a bit of a porky. Keeping fox cubs purely for some mindless muppet to chase across the countryside strikes me as obscene and cruel in the extreme. Shame on Cameron and his crew, they will just keep pandering to the people with too much money and too much time on their hands so that all they want to do is torment some poor dumb animal, second thoughts why not hunt Idiot Duncan Smiths instead? |