How To Kill A Fox

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She seems to be making a fair point in that shooting or snaring foxes (which are put up as alternatives to hunting) are a no more humane method of culling foxes and the assertion seems to be that those who oppose hunting in favour of the alternatives are hypocrites .
 
I reckon if anyone gave her the choice of a bullet to the head or being savaged by a pack of hounds, I can imagine which she'd choose.
 
That's the point she was making Mo , there is a hunting season which stops cubs being deprived of their mothers but the shooting season is all year round and the people doing the shooting arn't always crack shots . It's an easy decision if you can guarantee a bullet in the head to a vixen or fox who doesn't have cubs who depend on them but at least the hunting season pays respect to the natural order .
After watching the programme in full , it's assertions seemed to be that there is a far greater degree of suffering inherent in our methods of factory farming and animal research both in their severity and in the number of animals affected . Even the animal rights campaigners admit that foxhunting deaths are to the tune of 2500 foxes a year whereas the battery chicken industry is many many times that . I'm not saying that hunting is ideal or isn't cruel but is it more cruel than the alternatives ?
I have stopped buying supermarket meat and will only buy organic from a farm I know because I want to know that the animal has had a decent life . Don't get me wrong , I'm not a snob but I agree that people who buy £2.99 chickens from safeways don't have a right to take the moral highground over hunting
 
I believe the cheaper, frozen, chickens are imported from Thailand and other Asian countries, where we have little idea as to their welfare at any level.
 
Originally posted by Maurice@Feb 12 2005, 10:17 PM
So why not just limit the shooting season to the same time of year as the hunting season?
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I would agree with that completely Mo . I'm just playing devils advocate really . I'm not saying hunting isn't cruel . There was a whole hullabaloo this week here in NI when BBC NI showed footage of a stag being hunted locally . They don't hunt it and then kill it but they take it to the point of exhastion and then let it go . Still , watching the footage was heartbreaking as the animal tried to break through a farmers back garden and was so tired that it fell through a hedge rather than being able to jump it . The local radio "Stephen Nolan show" was inundated with calls and the arguement found it's way onto Question Time which was from Belfast this week
The hunt in question IS in trouble for it's methods but if a fox is killed quickly and cleanly I have no problem with that . If a qualified rifleman can do the same then I would welcome it .
 
I should imagine the easiest way to kill a fox is to force it to watch a programme hosted by the boring, self-indulgent, Germaine Greer, who has spent her entire working life wilfully mistaking advancing her own career for feminisim. :lol:
 
I saw the biggest amount of tripe I'd seen for a long time last night on TV - some old dear who has been campaaigning for a hunt ban for hte last hundred years or so who clearly hasn't left her house (or the city) for a good fifty years at least - either that or her mind has gone. She reckons that the vast majority of people in the countryside do not support, or participate in, hunting, shooting or fishing & that it should all be banned. Good to see she bothers researching her subject before she gets in front of a camera to talk about it....
 
There was another programme on about hunting yesterday too - on BBC1 - I think. They were talking to people who belong to one of the London hunts. Gave alot of background on the people that participate in the hunt and how they are looking at ways of getting around the ban. The hunt saboteurs were easily spotted before they even opened their mouths they just had a certain "look" about them. :blink:
 
Erm, sweetie....have you ever seen anyone wearing red breeches on a horse out hunting??!!! Nope, thought not.....


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PS - Smart comments only tend to work when they are accurate!!!!!! :P :lol:
 
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I have no doubt you are right SL I have never sat on a horse in my life but right click on the picture and click on properties and you will see why a simple soul like me was misred, sorry misled :rolleyes:
 
Which animal loving person wrote this?

It's terribly sad when people do things like that to any horse, hell, any animal, that can't fight back. I just hope that these people are reported to the RSPCA for their unecessary cruelty, & banned from treating other animals in the same careless manner.


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