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Originally Posted by Pierre
Not the greatest piece of research.
As the basis for most of the information in this report are articles from the BBC website, telegraph and guardian and not from official sources.
The only credible source is the burns report.
Anyway the overwhelming impression that this report gives is that hunts are carrying on as normal killing as many foxes as they did before the ban, which heralds the question, Why have a ban in the first place?
It's plainly obvious that it is not being enforced, which just backs up my view that the ban was brought in as a smite against a certain class, to show a little muscle, and in reality the government don't really care about the welfare of the fox as they and the police are quite happy to let the practice continue.
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well as i pointed a few pages ago it is hard to find a truly unbiased piece of research on this subject as all the research is commissioned by groups with a certain agenda .The difference with this report is the NI assembly are to a certain extent removed from any bias so don't need to pick and choose which research to publish .
It is notable that you reject the research in this report despite being pro-hunting ,i find that curious ,i would like to know why you think fox hunting in it's pre ban form should be re introduced
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Originally Posted by Flyboy
The Burns report was produced before the ban. It is hardly a definitive study of how the hunting industry has fared since the act.
I think you have your contexts mixed up. The number of foxes being killed is not an indication of the method. In fact, more foxes are being killed by shooting, than by dogs. You are right though, that in the majority of cases the act is not being enforced. That is not the fault of the act itself, but by the lack of priority to which the various police forces around the UK place on its enforcement. That is caused by, in some part, a conflict of interest in some senior police officers. Around here, the local Chief Superintendent is a senior member of the hunt, there has been suggestions that the police ignore their behaviour because of his involvement. Nonetheless, any failures on the police's behalf is not any reason to ignore the law and does not make the Hunting Act wrong.
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Good point, it must also be pointed out that a lot of the hunting takes place under the exceptions part of the law ,which does make it lawfull