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Should the hunting ban be repealed?
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Not a fan of hunting with hounds myself - seems barbaric to me - but the current legislation is pretty toothless. Should the law be repealed?
http://www.guardian.c...-hunts-mission-repeal
Not a fan of hunting with hounds myself - seems barbaric to me - but the current legislation is pretty toothless. Should the law be repealed?
http://www.guardian.c...-hunts-mission-repeal
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I wonder how much it costs to buy a hunting rig-out and keep a horse for hunting? I don't suppose there's many could afford it out of their benefits.
Hunting, whether it's killing someone's pet cat, or riding to hounds in the company of blue bloods, must coarsen and brutalise people. It should be stopped as much for their sake as for that of the animals they tear to pieces.
Hunting, whether it's killing someone's pet cat, or riding to hounds in the company of blue bloods, must coarsen and brutalise people. It should be stopped as much for their sake as for that of the animals they tear to pieces.
sandy some of the farmers don't like the hunt going on their land but have to turn a blind eye to it, if they don't when they take some stock to market the toffs give the nod and people do not bid on their stock.
anyone who bids then finds they are on the list.
em the farmer has been down to my house so i do find out things
anyone who bids then finds they are on the list.
em the farmer has been down to my house so i do find out things
as should badger baiting, and in the case of livestock not stunning an animal before killing it, as is the practice in the Jewish and Muslim community, should be outlawed, and firmly enforced. How do the knobheads who own fighting dogs pay out of their benefit, or is it more a case of dealing drugs to pay for the dogs, and then set them at each other, perhaps that's my misconception on class, that it's only the working class who do that. As to rig out for horse, rider, no idea, but like any item of clothing, once bought you don't have to buy another.
Class is the one thing this country hasn't got out of it's system, and time we did.
Class is the one thing this country hasn't got out of it's system, and time we did.
I do not want to get into a class war, and I am willing to believe that people of all classes are represented in hunting with hounds. One proviso. I used to ride a lot when I lived in the country, and met quite a few people who participated in the hunt at the local stables - and many did appear to come from, if not from the upper class, certainly the monied class.
Dog fighting, cock fighting, hare coursing - all are, in my view, equally reprehensible and should rightly be banned also.I am happy that fox- hunting with hounds has been banned - my main concern is that lack of interest in enforcement created a situation where the law was not having an effect. whereas several contributors have suggested that this is not the case.
Someone said something about hunting being "the way of the world"? It is only the "way of the world" if we allow it to be - laws can be passed, and enforced, and in time the "ways of the world" can be changed.To allow blood sports in the 21st century would be wrong, in my estimation.
Dog fighting, cock fighting, hare coursing - all are, in my view, equally reprehensible and should rightly be banned also.I am happy that fox- hunting with hounds has been banned - my main concern is that lack of interest in enforcement created a situation where the law was not having an effect. whereas several contributors have suggested that this is not the case.
Someone said something about hunting being "the way of the world"? It is only the "way of the world" if we allow it to be - laws can be passed, and enforced, and in time the "ways of the world" can be changed.To allow blood sports in the 21st century would be wrong, in my estimation.
one of the biggest anti hunt opponents was the late Alan Clarke MP, one of the landed gentry, i believe he refused the hunt endless times access across his land, so you see this foolish belief that its all toffs in red coats is just that nonsense. Some watch downton Abbey and think that it still applies, doff your cap, yes sir no sir, those days are gone, and good riddance.
If the government of which ever persuasion wants it banned outright, then it must enforce it, and that takes manpower, which the police don't have.
I said it's the way of the world, that was not meant as i agreed with it, some though seem to think it ok to go horse racing, where if you look at the statistics more horses are seriously injured, which usually means being put down, or killed outright, than foxes who aren't that easy to catch
I said it's the way of the world, that was not meant as i agreed with it, some though seem to think it ok to go horse racing, where if you look at the statistics more horses are seriously injured, which usually means being put down, or killed outright, than foxes who aren't that easy to catch
A lot of the support for the hunting ban was based on the politics of envy - left wing "bash the toffs"
It went down well with Labour voters at a time when the Labour government wasn't too popular.
I don't think there's any real support for repealing it, though.
To my mind, the cruellest bloodsport is fishing. to be hooked in the jaw, then half suffocated and put back in the water for it to happen again is barbarous.
They say fish don't feel pain - just as daft as saying foxes enjoy being hunted
It went down well with Labour voters at a time when the Labour government wasn't too popular.
I don't think there's any real support for repealing it, though.
To my mind, the cruellest bloodsport is fishing. to be hooked in the jaw, then half suffocated and put back in the water for it to happen again is barbarous.
They say fish don't feel pain - just as daft as saying foxes enjoy being hunted
Dr filth - To expand a little, I don't think there's much likelihood of a majority for repeal of the act. There will be a solid Labour & Lib Dem vote against, and most Tory MPs won't want to pass such an unpopular act no matter what their personal views may be. Cameron is having to offer his right wing something to keep them a bit happier.
Do you have any views on fishing? There seems to be a conspiracy of silence...
Do you have any views on fishing? There seems to be a conspiracy of silence...
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