Killing for fun/sport will always be justified by the killers. The grouse will be eaten. Foxes must be "controlled." Deer must be "culled" to "maintain the strength of the herd," etc. But hypocrisy and unintended irony abound. Foxhunting country was deliberately made favourable for foxes by providing cover for them. After all, the last thing the hunts wanted was for the fox supply to run out. Odd that Botham hasn't spotted that one in his anti-fox rants, seeing as how the fox-hunters are, in effect and in sentiment, his brothers-in-arms. And let's see how a typical grouse might meet its end. First, it will be flushed out, terrified by a beater. Then it will endure a hail of thunderous shooting, adding to the terror. Then, if it hasn't been actually shot just yet, the fear will be compounded by vicious dogs charging through the flock. There's a good chance that you aren't killed quick and clean even if you do get shot. I wonder how many of those hooray-Henry shooters and hunters go to the pub that evening railing against the evils of halal... not a lot, probably, come to think of it. They won't know very much at all about what those "Muslim chappies" get up to. I've mixed with a few of these sporting types in my time in the rural pubs round here and they aren't usually the sharpest knives in the drawer, let's say.