There is a difference between hunting and hunting with dogs - the latter virtually everyone knows about, but there have also been, and still are as far as I know, foot hunts in Wales which think take/took place on boxing day. As opposed to being a bloodsport for the jollification of those who still view themselves as the ruling class, the foothunts are/were culls by local farmers/farm-workers in an attempt to control the fox population - however I have never come accross a traditional or even contemporary foot-hunting song.

Another subject which I think slots in with the thread subject is the slave trade - another historical abomination.

What stops abominations being repeated is the continuation of debate, without debate comes apathy, with apathy atrocities reoccur without anyone noticing. If hunting/whaling/poaching songs keep the pro/anti debate going, it can only be a good thing, or we end up with a sanitised version of the truth.