Fox Hunting Ban… three years of failure

Almost every day the North West Hunt Saboteurs Association emails with news of often extreme examples of animal cruelty, surprisingly frequently connected to fox hunting… despite the apparent ban on this blood sport three years ago this week. Much of this goes relatively unreported, but news highlights have been assembled here.

Not a single hunt has disbanded and while there has been the occasional prosecution and small fine it’s reasonable to say that police have retained their role as hunt protectors. So far from retiring hunt saboteurs are reorganised into organisations like Hunt Crime Watch and are as active as ever.

Last year Tory leader David Cameron marked the ban’s second anniversary with a promise to legalise hunting as a matter of urgency. Fortunately, 73 per cent of people are against him. In the meantime, why not email your chief constable to politely ask that they do their job?
Fox photo taken in Essex by Neil Phillips. Used with permission. Some rights reserved.

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4 graffiti on “Fox Hunting Ban… three years of failure”

1. Oleander says:
   

   Animals were put here on this earth to die for our nourishment, and at times…pleasure. People like you care more about animals than people because that is what find easiest to live with. Your strong forefathers await your weak soul. You are not a man.

   February 22nd, 2008 at 2:44 pm
2. Stephen Newton says:
   

   blah…blah…blah… Some rather fanciful assertions, don’t you think?

   February 22nd, 2008 at 5:18 pm
3. Neil says:
   

   Wow that Oleander is obviously a member of the countryside alliance. thanks for using my photo btw :)
   Was worried it when the referring link said ‘fox hunting’ but Im more than happy if my photo helped in making folks more aware of the law breakers

   March 1st, 2008 at 8:33 pm
4. Steve Bryson says:
   

   Thankfully people like Oleander are becoming extinct for a reason, civilised society has begun to recognise there is no place for such archaic thinking. I am a serving soldier, have been for the best part of 20 years. The things I hunt can and do shoot back, which is far more entertaining than ripping up a fox with dogs for “pleasure”. Oleander - you and your kind are the saddest creatures ever, pathetic worms the lot of you masquerading as real men.

   March 13th, 2008 at 2:00 am

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