The fact of the matter is that fox hunting is tied up with so many other aspects of the countryside
Farmers can get rid of fallen stock by passing it along to the hunt kennels
Some aspects of horse activities, such as dressage and point to point depend on the fox hunting infra structure
Even drag hunting relies on the fox hunting facilities.
A lot of knock on jobs depend on hunting.
The idea of killing a creature for sport seem abhorrant and out of place, yet these and many interconnections seem to be ignored by people in the towns.
As I said elsewhere
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As a townie, what right do I have to say what a countryside person can do. This has become town versus country, the perception being that townies have a romantic version of a rural idle, when country people know nature is cruel in tooth and claw.
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I sometimes think that in the debate over fox hunting we forget that there are other welfare issues
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We worry about the occasional fox that gets killed by a fox hunt yet what about tolleration of poor animal husbandry and "cheap" meat from abroad where animal welfare is not as high as here.
We worry about the occasional fox that gets killed by a fox hunt yet we ship live animals incredibly long distances because European legislation has forced the closure of local abbatoirs.
We worry about the occasional fox that gets killed by a fox hunt yet every year puppys are abandoned because someone thought it would make a great Christmas present for a child
We worry about the occasional fox that gets killed by a fox hunt yet still people buy battery farmed eggs, because they are cheaper.
We worry about the occasional fox that gets killed by a fox hunt yet annimals needlessly suffer to make sure that beauty products wont cause any problems or to test medicines on animals who have a totally different physiology to us, thus limiting their value.
We worry about the occasional fox that gets killed by a fox hunt yet ....
Get the picture
Sometimes
Do we have the focus right?
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On this issue I seem to have ended up on the fence, not the easiest place to be