Hunting belongs firmly in past
In your story "Crowds turn out to cheer on traditional Boxing Day hunt" (Mercury, December 28), Sarah Smith said: "You can't erase hundreds of years of tradition with one rubbish law."
Thank goodness Ms Smith and her ilk didn't live in the 19th century, otherwise we'd still have slavery; children would still be sent up chimneys and down mines; and women wouldn't have the opportunity to vote.
Isn't it time Ms Smith and the rest of the red-coated barbarians abandoned their antiquated ideas and advanced into the 21st century?
Elizabeth Allison, Aylestone.
6 Comments
by Peter, Wigston
Saturday, January 01 2011, 10:35PM
“It is not widely accepted that a fox is vermin.”
by David, Great Easton, Rural Leicestershire.
Friday, December 31 2010, 11:45AM
“I meant, untold damage.”
by David, Great Easton, Rural Leicestershire.
Friday, December 31 2010, 11:44AM
“It is a widely accepted fact that the fox is vermin and does until damage and runs amok across our land killing what it wants to and in many cases not just to feed.
Once you understand that fact you will begin to realise that this is not a "sport" as so many mistakenly believe but a long held tradition/past time. It keeps both horse and hound exercised and to suggest the countryside is littered with half dead foxes bloodied and bleeding simply isn't true.
New Labour realised, eventually, that there were more pressing issues to be tackled instead of wasting time on a pest a vermin that was put on this earth for no good reason!!
Even the late, not great Prime Minister, Tony Blair concedes the Hunting Act of 2004 was "one of the domestic legislative measures I most regret". Now what does that tell you?”
by Arden, Braunstone
Thursday, December 30 2010, 10:54PM
“That is the issue. What is it that makes someone want to make a sport out of the death of an animal. Hunting fans never answer this one, go on David.
By the way I agreed for the first time with you ever over the driving story yesterday, glad to be back ontrack”
by LeicesterLocal, Leicester!
Thursday, December 30 2010, 5:06PM
“"The headline is your opinion only Ms. Allison, " - NO it is not - it is mine also.
It is barbaric to kill animals for so-called sport.”
by David, Great Easton, Rural Leicestershire.
Thursday, December 30 2010, 4:16PM
“The headline is your opinion only Ms. Allison, thank God. There are thousands across the UK countryside who feel very differently.
Why is it you and your ilk always drag up other issues eg. slavery, votes for women and other idiotic non-comparisons to prop up your argument?
Hunting has nothing at all to do with kids going up chimneys or down mines. If this is the best your pathetic and lame argument can resort to might I suggest you abandon your position.
The fact of the matter is hunting does not harm any humans and is aimed purely as a recreational past-time, part of this nation's heritage and tradition to hunt down a pest, a vermin that has every chance of escape.
It is a well-known fact the hounds rarely catch a fox and it is invariably the injured ones only that come to an end in this way, a minute proportion of their population.
Rest assured, as a result of this vindictive and iniquitous law, the matter will simply not go away as you would dearly wish.
Happy 'Hunting' New Year!!”