Foxhunting? What sort of lunatics enjoy it?

[gd_1 10]

Personally I don't eat dead animals and I don't agree with angling. But we have to make a start somewhere and the majority of the public have been in favour of a fox-hunting ban for many many years, so the ban has been long overdue.

 

So as above instead of banning hunting lets ban cats

[A.B.Yaffle 24]

So as above instead of banning hunting lets ban cats

 

I thought you were going to suggest a compromise of starting to hunt cats!

 

Given that the majority of us humans in Britain have decided that it is totally unnecesary and cruel to hunt foxes for pleasure, I think that makes the issue of fox-hunting slightly different from the issue of cats hunting mice and birds. Anyway, as far as I am aware our cat has never killed any other animal anyway, so presumably you will allow him to survive your cat ban?

[Rich 12]

I am totally against hunting, it's cruel and inhumane IMHO, especially as dogs and foxes are related in a roundabout way, in the Canine "family".

[Guest]

ban the hunt!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[AJ sheffield 11]

we were given brains and humanity so we can choose what to do. personally, if I see any living creature in distress. I will help it.

 

I'm also a vegitarian, I believe if you want to eat an animal - kill it yourself, humanely!

Millions of people die each year globally because of war, thats our brains and humanity for ya.

These make the deaths of a few foxes pale into complete insignificance.

Admittedly fox hunting is archaic, brutal and totally unnescersary. And on another level it is very scary with regards to the "dressing up" and rituals of the hunt. Almost reminds me of people in the Wicker man.

[gd_1 10]

Ban people who have animals for pleasure that they know are going to cause untold misery to hundreds of animals in their lifetime. Now do I mean hounds or cats?

[redrobbo 10]

 

"NATURE" whether as a 2006 modern day human being you agree with fox hunting or not it's still one of the most natural things on planet Earth to go out hunting and killing things lower down than us on the food chain.

 

The fact that they now hunt foxes as a sport does not matter.

 

You contradict yourself.

 

If it is natural to hunt and kill things "lower down than us on the food chain", then surely, by the very nature of your argument, it is unnatural to hunt foxes purely "as a sport"?

 

Of course, your argument does make perfect sense, as long as you eat what you kill in the food chain. You do eat foxes don't you?

[Chewbacca 10]

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[A.B.Yaffle 24]

Is it any less cruel to breed foxes so we can get dogs to rip them to pieces for fun than to put a cat or a dog in an oven for fun? We've had at least one case of the latter in South Yorkshire in the last year and I didn't see a mad rush of people trying to defend that. Although I dare say the anti-cat poster on here was probably glad when he/she heard about that case.

[English Glory 10]

Just a shame so much time was wasted in Parliament because of vindictive, jealous socialists. Labour's Britain is going down the pan for humans but vermin were considered ahead of human life. Typical of the left. Remember seeing Tony Benn as smug as can be on BBC Parliament during the debate, displaying his hatred of hard working country folk, their livelihood and their traditions.

 

It doesn't escape the fact that more of the vermin are killed than before the ban either.

 

Unfortunately animal welfare has been ahead of much more important humankind for too long from charity donations to poisonous terrorism against fellow man of those seeking to save human life with animal testing.

 

The law was broken numerous times when fox hunting was legal by tresspassers onto private land - that's all animal rights activists are... petty criminals with a minority of them having an evil streak who deserve to be caged like the animals they seek to protect.

[A.B.Yaffle 24]

Just a shame so much time was wasted in Parliament because of vindictive, jealous socialists.

 

I agree too much time was wasted. The majority of the public have been in favour of a ban for decades. Why couldn't Thatcher have got it banned in her first term of office?

 

I wouldn't call the Tories who repeatedly talked proposed bans out of time "jealous socialists" though.

 

I will admit though that Blair should have been bolder and banned it earlier instead of trying to find ways of appeasing the fox hunters... thus wasting even more parliamentary time.

[Litotes 63]

I am sorry, but so many of the view posted above are emotional rather than rational.

 

As previously explained, the hunt is a replacement (albeit an artificial one) for the natural predators that the human race has extinguished.

 

So what if the fox gets ripped apart - that is what would have happened in nature anyway - dogs hunt in packs, foxes are solitary creatures.

 

Ecological arguements aside, it saddens me to see people who must consider themselves to be in the more educated percentile discussing this rather than considering the state of the country.

 

Surely the parliament would have been better put to use debating unemployment, education, racism, or any other injustice rather than the hours of times and huge amounts of taxpayers money which was spent on, what is after all, just a vote grabber.

 

All of those who looked away from the shambles that the country is in to consider the plight of the 'poor' fox, consider yourselves well and truly hoodwinked by Tony B'liar' and cronies.

 

Hmmm, what next - the plight of the lemmings...?