Frankly, I'd rather place my trust in their informed views than in your ill-informed assertions.

If you mean my assertions (or opinions) that you were not in fact in any pain - whilst you had your teeth removed without any pain-killers? You may be wise not to place your trust in me. Through your agony - you may suspect that my assertion (or opinions) - that no cruelty to you was taking place - may be a less than objective assertion (or opinion)........You would be right.

The same I think is true with your experts when they try to second-guess the pain and cruelty inflicted upon hunted foxes. I should not trust their assertions (or opinions) to be objective either. I will trust to the evidence of my own eyes and give the benefit of any doubt about inflicted cruelty - (if there is any doubt) - to the fox.