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Thread #41556   Message #659949
Posted By: Dave Bryant
28-Feb-02 - 11:44 AM
Thread Name: BS: Should foxhunting be banned?
Subject: RE: BS: Should foxhunting be banned?
OK Harvey, would you like to see angling banned as well, or is that OK because a lot of working class people enjoy it. Perhaps we should just ban posh people from salmon fishing on expensive private locations etc.

And as I've mentioned in an earlier thread, hundreds (or possibly thousands) of times more foxes will be run over by cars than will be killed by hunts this year. How many drivers will get out of their car to check that the fox isn't injured and in pain. And would you be willing to observe the draconian speed limits that would be required to limit the slaughter. I don't think the fact that a fox is killed by carelessness and not deliberately really absolves the perpetrator from blame.

I'm not part of the fox-hunting lobby, but I am anti the anti-foxhunting lobby.