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Originally Posted by martyh
The argument against fox hunting has always been about the way it was done, for the majority at least .I don't doubt there was an element that want no foxes killed at all but the sensible majority know they are a pest with no natural predators and you may be right about the farmers ,would a farmer really wait for hunt weekend to kill a fox that just got into his chickens or would he get his 12 bore out and do the job straight away
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Interesting choice for the fox really, a slow lingering death full of pellets, gnaw your own foot of caught on a snare or poison, none of them are particularly nice but hunting is banned, I don't know for certain how hunting works or how a fox is killed but I do know for certain I'm not swayed by the emotive language of certain groups and individuals, is the fox ripped to bits alive or is it killed by a single dog and then torn up after death as is claimed by the hunt masters and if so how is that worse than it's natural predators the eagle owl and golden eagle swooping straight through them as happens on hunts now.