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Originally posted by Romantic Old Bird
I really don't want to get into this one at all Sticks. However, just to point out, on the Dressage/showjumping front, that my neice competes successfully in both of these in the Netherlands. Neither she, or her horse, or her friends and their horses had ANYTHING whatsoever to do with foxhunting!
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I can not speak for the set up in the Netherlands, but on Farming Today on Radio 4, they did point out that a number of other horse activities did depend on the stables provided by various fox hunts.
Also a number of horse related industries, like farriers and blacksmiths, rely on work put their way by the various hunts as there "bread and butter" work.
It seems that things out there in the sticks, if you pardon the expression, are more interconnected than people realise.
I find the idea of killing an animal for sport an anathma, and I would prefer people switched to drag hunting, but that too is dependant on the various fox hunts for the stabling of the horses and the hounds
But if fox hunting is banned, then the next targets are shooting and fishing - and I have seen the anti-angling literature. The arguments given to ban fishing will be those that they used for foxhunting, in much the way they are using the arguments used to ban bear baiting, badger baiting and cock fighting to ban fox hunting.
I feel caught between two factions, and if I had been an MP, I would havd had to do what our MP did and abstain.
