Government ‘Committed’ To Banning Trail Hunting
The title of this post, is the same as that of this article on the BBC.
This is the sub heading.
The government has committed to a trail hunting ban as hunts gather across the UK for traditional Boxing Day meets.
These three paragraphs introduce the article.
Trail hunting – a practice where a scent is laid out for the hunt to follow – was introduced as a “cruelty free” replacement for fox hunting, banned by Labour in 2004.
Animal rights campaigners have urged the government to deliver on its manifesto promise to ban trail hunting.
The Countryside Alliance, which represents hunters, has criticised the decision, and said it would be “extraordinary” for Labour to focus on the ban given the poor state of its relations with rural communities.
Hunting of all forms and that includes shooting and angling is not a simple black-and-white issue and it supports the employment of large numbers of people.
So if you ban hunting, where do you stop?
Some at the extreme, would ban all sports involving animals and make their eating and use for clothing and other products illegal.
The Anonymous Widower 
In answer to your question, it will stop with a ban on killing animals for fun ( or sport as hunters call it – yes sure! ) Have you seen a pheasant shoot? Reared pheasant, fat and slow, are pushed out of the undergrowth so they can be shot at by sportsmen … waiting under their flight path. Nice way to spend you leisure hours, eh?
I’m not a vegan or some anti meat fanatic but there is no argument for keeping this sort of activity.
Using your logic we should have been concerned about the employment prospects of executioners when capital punishment was ended.
Comment by Graham Owen | December 26, 2024 |
Basically agree with comment 1. Hunting for amusement [and animal sufering] then no, although even here there are grey bits like fishing lakes protected from predators like otters. Hunting for food OTOH is fine – all part of nature’s rich harvest.
Interestingly, whislt I am not religious, this is essentially the same formula as in the Quran, with just a few religious [minor] caveats added.
Comment by Mark Clayton | December 26, 2024 |