I understand fully the problems with foxes. Here in Norfolk, the poultry farmers of free-range stock are often troubled by them.
But there are other, more humane ways of controlling the fox population than hunting with hounds.
I've always thought that the goal of the Fox Hunts isn't the control of foxes at all, but to have a jolly good day out in the winter months, giving one's prize hunter some exercise and to hobnob with like-minded folk. It's more a social event than a vermin-control sortie.
And it's unspeakably cruel.