Summary
In your editorial headed "Hunting issue will rage on" you end: "What a pointless exercise it has been" in referring to the ban. Not at all. At the very least it has removed the malign ethos that condoned hunting animals with dogs for "sport and recreation" as a legal activity. At last, immature minds will be shaped by an ethically decent statutory environment.
As the sources of independent informed research show over and over again, although mounted foxhunting killed around 14,000 foxes each year it had an insignificant effect on the fox population. Though not conjuring up for most the graphic images of, for example, badger baiting, it is nevertheless a blood sport.See the full content of this document
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Nothing Pointless About Hunting Ban
But the ban does and will do more. It is reducing the number of foxes killed for sport by dogs. And as the population is not significantly affected and foxes are rarely more than a nuisance to farmers anyway, there is no...
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