Well said Chris, that has always been my take on the subject too. While I have not witnessed the devastation that a fox can wreck I have been (unwillingly)present at the culmination of a foxhunt (in the Lake District on the site where I was camping)and I fancy I know which is the more barbaric.
Sorry but I now have no desire to attend Bradfield Festival which is not too far from me and to which a number of my collegues go.