Hunting is fairly portrayed as barbaric
In his support for fox hunting, David Hankey made some very sweeping statements.
He wrote that only a minute proportion of the population have witnessed a fox being killed by hounds and yet it is portrayed as being barbaric.
I have never witnessed bear baiting or an organised dog fight but I still think it is barbaric.
As for fox hunting, anyone who gets pleasure from watching a defenceless creature being ripped to bits by a pack of hounds must have some sort of mental disability or have lacked loving parental care when they were young.
They are in the same category as the yobs who get pleasure shooting birds and domestic animals with air guns and they all should be dealt with accordingly.
Mr Hankey says it is the natural instinct for a fox to kill whatever it likes – it is equally natural for a hound to do the same in this environment. Does he also think it is a natural thing for a so-called human to cut off the brush from a creature they have just watched being ripped to bits and then smear the blood on to some youngster's face as an initiation ceremony?
So when the Conservatives try to repeal the Hunting Act, in David Hankey's eyes they are showing common sense.
That can't say much for the Conservatives can it?
By the way, I have witnessed a fox being ripped to bits by a pack of crazed hounds – egged on by a bunch of crazed huntsmen.
G A Wright, Leicester.
5 Comments
by Em, Leics
Thursday, February 25 2010, 3:22PM
“David, please can we have an end to your diatribes about this. Hunting is cruel, outdated and wasteful of both time and environmental resources. Heavens above man why don't you turn your attention to something more worthwhile (and effective). You and your apologists are boring me doolaly now.”
by David Hankey, Great Easton, Leics.
Thursday, February 25 2010, 2:19PM
“Karin, this topic is all to do with the monumental time wasted by a Government who have wanted to "change for the sake of change". You start a topic on illegal wars and id cards instead of hijacking this issue which as many of you want to go away will simply not.
For New Labour who will only be here for a relatively short period of time, thank God, they should have put their energies into solving far more important matters. What is it about the wretched fox that fixates them so much?”
by Karin, Oadby
Thursday, February 25 2010, 12:46PM
“Mr. Hankey you seem to be missing a trick here. It is you who appears to be wasting hours obsessing about hunting and then tarting it up as your concern for New Labour's policies. If you want to attack New Labour how about dwelling on the prospect of id cards or illegal wars. Now there's something worth getting worked up about. To get up and don a strange uniform and then set out to pursue an animal to exhaustion followed by a probably traumatic death requires, I would suggest, a very strange mindset. It seems a strange choice with which to bludgeon a party with many other faults you could easily dwell on should you choose to do so.”
by Paul, Houghton
Thursday, February 25 2010, 12:18PM
“I agree with David Hankey there are far more important topics for the Goverment to worry about.So why should the Conservatives bother with wasting any more time on this offering a free vote,and if they did you MP should ballet his/her consituency and vote according to the majority but they won't after all they are suppose to represent us. . This is always going to be an emotive topic, but i will add a few comments. I have also seen a fox ripped to bits (true words used) I have also seen a fox go to ground only to be dug up and thrown to the baying pack.(that really is sporting). Why do the huntsman try and block off all the holes/dens prior to the hunt? Fox hunting is outdated and has no part in country life.”
by David Hankey, Great Easton, Leics.
Thursday, February 25 2010, 10:36AM
“Oh dear, G A Wright, you have fallen into the trap and missed my central point completely as most of the antis have.
If you care to read properly what I have written, "that I am not interested in the fox NOR the people who gallop across fields in pursuit of the uneatable". How can that be construed as my supporting fox-hunting is plain stupid.
My argument comes from the fact that New Labour has chosen to waste thousands of hours to attack and change traditions that have been around for centuries when there are far more important topics awaiting Government.”