BS: 59% of the people in favour of hunting?

Subject: RE: BS: 59% of the people in favour of hunting?
From: Beardy
Date: 13 Oct 03 - 02:26 PM

I too have seen this sign becoming prominent across the country and was surprised by the % quoted. Despite having been 'dragged' up in the country spending all my weekends with relatives who worked on a farm I am anti-hunting.

On a tangent; in 41 years I have never been asked my opinion as part of any survey/poll whether it be on politics or any other subject. In these samples of usually 2000 people do the use the same 2000 people? (OK I know they dont but I have nebver spoken to anybody else who has participated).

Stewart

Subject: RE: BS: 59% of the people in favour of hunting?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 13 Oct 03 - 02:17 PM

Sounds like a highly spun statistic.

I imagine if you asked people "Do you think people who hunt foxes deserve to get strung up?" you might well find that 59% saying they didn't.

Subject: RE: BS: 59% of the people in favour of hunting?
From: Don Firth
Date: 13 Oct 03 - 02:14 PM

Maybe it depends on the kind of hunting they mean. My wife spends a lot of time hunting for her glasses. I spend a lot of time hunting for the TV remote. But neither of us are particularly in favor of it.

Other than swatting mosquitoes, I don't think I've ever killed anything, and I certainly wouldn't derive any pleasure from it. Do I eat meat? Yes. Does that make me a hypocrite? Probably. Do I favor tracking down wild animals and killing them? No. I like the idea of their running free.

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: 59% of the people in favour of hunting?
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 13 Oct 03 - 02:06 PM

I've never been a hunter, but I'm all right with hunting in the abstract.

By "in the abstract" I mean that I would object to hunting of species that are under survival pressure, or which would skew the environmental balance, but fishing or shooting or trapping game is okay by me.

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: BS: 59% of the people in favour of hunting?
From: fogie
Date: 13 Oct 03 - 12:35 PM

Around my rural area people are putting this notice up, on the roadside presumably in supporters fields. I have a desperate urge to deface them as it seems a ludicrous statement. I felt similarly incensed by last years notice about fearing a minority. Where on earth did the statistics for this poster campaign come from? I do not for a moment believe it. Some braver soul painted over the 5 of 59% which I would think is nearer the mark.