Fox hunting
 

what do people think about fox hunting?
i personally find it repulsive in the present age that people would even consider hunting down a wild animal chasing it till it's exhausted and letting it be ripped to pieces by a pack of dogs

a total ban is what is needed for this disgusting so called 'sport' which brings nothing but suffering to foxes and dont start on the 'they steal chickens from farmers' so what its part of nature why dont the farmers just put up a better defense :mad:

Well.. It does happen naturally, I think people find it so repulsive cos the people who do it, get kicks out of it.. Strict Restrcitions are probably the best..

It's unnecessary and repulsive. And posh, and that's enough reason to have it banned.

exactly why do the royals do it what 'legitimate' reasons do they conjur up ?

While I have no particular desire to go fox hunting I don't go for this "ban everything the majority don't like" thing.

Next thing you know they'll be wanting to ban happy hour & replace the pubs with coffee shops.

Alan

what happens naturally?

Predators go after there prey.

eh ?

no one said were going to ban everything the majorty do its a specific subject what plausable or actual valid reasons are there from fox hunting i already mentioned one that they seem to come up with

true but the fox has a chance to escape and predators only kill what they eat, they don't rip apart animals for fun

Man after fox? Man after woman maybe. Oh, wait, I get it now...

care to expand on that statement

I don't really have a problem with the fox population being controlled as I'm sure they are a menace to farmers, it's just the way they are controlled that bothers me....

I would like to know what all the fox protesters are going to do on the weekend when there are no fox hunts to protest about ?
Are there any air bases or bypasses that need their attention?

While foxes are pretty to look at, they are a nuisance. Last year one night a young fox chewed up my clothes line (one of those rotary ones), which I'd taken down to mow the lawn. It also chewed up some outside cabling & dragged the following to the centre of the lawn & chewed up:
1) A bag of building sand.
2) A grow-bag with tomato plants
3) A bag of chipped bark.

Clearing the lawn up took some time.

So my opinion is "Not in my back yard" - literally.

However, I am more concerned the the gradual creep of law into regulating everything we do. The law should be there to allow people to coexist & settle their differences in a controlled manner. It should not be there to force other folks to conform to one's personal view of correct behaviour. If it was, then I'd like to see the following banned for a start:

Smoking - As a non-smoker it gets up my nose.
Dogs in public places - coz of the mess
Wimbledon on TV - I find tennis a boring spectator sport
All public service strikes - they inconvenience me
Dangerous sporting activities - I don't want to pay for other folks hospital treatment when they've done something stupid.
Off-topic discussion of Avril - it's getting tedious (a bit below the belt I know) ;)

Well actually I don't want to see them banned because Article 29 (subsection (2)) of the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights states:

"In the exercise of his rights and freedoms, everyone shall be subject only to such limitations as are determined by law solely for the purpose of securing due recognition and respect for the rights and freedoms of others and of meeting the just requirements of morality, public order and the general welfare in a democratic society."