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Originally Posted by Chris
The population control argument in favour of hunting is that hunting foxes tends to take out only the weak whereas shooting them is random.
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The rifle doesn't discriminate plus I remember the first day of hunting post ban where more foxes were killed in one day that all the previous years hunts put together.
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Originally Posted by Damien
Aren't these all problems existing methods of population control deal with more effectively? We don't hunt badgers for example. Foxes are quick and clever which is probably why they're so ideal for sport. Does a hunt even kill a adequate number of them or is that were the argument it targets the weak come in? How many would typically be killed in a hunt or is it too hard to say?
There are other sports where the use of animals is questionable but has less stigma. There isn't a serious campaign to ban horse racing for example even though it seems to me that causes pain to the horses involved and a number of them die whilst racing....
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Pre ban most foxes escaped the hunt unless they were old, sick or full of mange and typically the hunt lasted 20 minutes. There is an argument that hunting was effective because it moved the fox population on to other areas but I think the cash farmers get paid has more to do with it