In answer to BWM who charmingly suggests that I am a "TC".

I am totally against "killing for fun", these people disgust me. We see many in Scotland hunting deer.....mostly Dutch and German who pay a lot of cash for hunting trips and of course contributing to the economy.   They have an argument that the deer are being "culled" to improve the strength of the herds and that they mainly take older beasts or those with infirmities.
That being said many animals themselves kill for fun.....have you ever seen the inside of a chicken coop after Mr Fox has visited....they kill everything that moves, its like a slaughter house, heads, legs feathers everywhere.....yet in many cases they eat nothing, or carry away one carcase.

The point I was making Mr BWM.....(look, no TC), is that if you are really worried about animal cruelty start looking at the way our chicken and meat is produced and processed. Our righteous anger over what we see as a privileged minority "enjoying themselves(fox hunting), tends to obscure the real shame in how we treat animals.

Another smokescreen!.....just like "equality" really.