Fox Hunting.

Yeah. I'm bored. And I apologise if this subject has been done before.

Do you think fox hunting is right or wrong?

For me, wrong. yerrr.

Well you started this post, so tell us why you think it's wrong? For me, I used to think that every kind of hunting was wrong until I talked to someone who made me see that as long as someone isn't hunting to kill an animal and uses every part of the animal they kill, than it's not really as bad as people make it out to be.

WELL.

I don't see the point in watching an innocent animal be killed for your own petite entertainment.

But I don't really mind other hunting if you're killing it to eat it.
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It's been around for centuries what changed from then to now to make it so terribly wrong?

The fox is still vermin, the upper class still ride horses and breed dogs.

If was back in England I could go out with a fire arm, shoot a fox in a field and no one could complain. The fox still dies, it will not be served on a plate and it would probably take longer to die than if it was mauled by thirty beagles.

It's all about suppression of class, not the slightest bit of difference to the actual fox. Who do you think actually came up with the idea that fox hunting was a bad idea?

:o Bret.
I wasn't commenting on it 'cause of the classy rich old duffers who prance around on horses watching foxes get killed.
Only because it -is- animal cruelty.
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And I take offense to sheep, I prefer goats.
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I think killing any animal... unless you are on the point of real starvation, and I mean real, not "I skipped lunch" starving, then you are left with little choice.
But just hunting because you are trying to impress, think it looks good, want some fur... now that is wrong.

//T.L.//

Hunting has always been a social exercise. even back in the days of our forebares when it was also a necessity. Animal husbandry has changed the need for hunting to a major extent because it's easier to herd docile animals then try and shoot wild ones from afar with arrows and spears and then later with rifles.

So from this point of view fox hunting continues a social tradition that has been an essential part of our ancestor's lives. Is it wrong to depart from that part of our essence?

Come a nuclear holocaust we'll all be sent back 300 years or more and hunting will be back on the list of necessities. It seems the upper class will be way ahead of most us when it comes to providing for their families in that event.