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There is a point however when a law is totally disregarded by the vast majority you have to question whether it should be the law. That is not the case with hunting because it is only ignored by a minority. A far better example is the 70mph limit on a motorway where a clear majority choose to ignore it.

DavidS wrote:

> There is a point however when a law is totally disregarded by
> the vast majority you have to question whether it should be the
> law.


All depends on who the vast majority are David.

For example the vast majority of teens were my parents live wanted to be anti-social, wreck property, insult and later target old people 'for having a go at them and spoiling their fun' etc.

Now those little angels don't get away with it. The law which prevents them from causing misery to people is used and it stops the vast majority of these little darlings from doing what they would like to do.

We leave food in the woods for the local foxes, saves throwing it away and they will probably attack the rubbish bags to get it anyway. Haven't got a problem with our urban type, if I kept chickens in a more country environment I would probably hate them with a passion. Probably a lot more humane ways of culling them than fox hunting though.
Seem to have the lefties looking on hunting as something the posh do and as such should be banned, appear to be more worried about who is doing it than the what happens to the fox itself. You've then got the dog breeders and handlers who make a living out of it and are as bad as the lefties and then you've got the actual hunters who are portrayed as either chinless wonders by the anti or salt of the earth country lovers by the pros.
Never been on a horse so cannot comment on why they feel the need to chase a fox to make the ride more enjoyable.
Always thought though that there more important laws that could have voted in while Tone was doing this PR exercise than fox hunting.

With the amount of foxes I have seen in the last couple of weeks dead as a result of road accidents, I do wonder if any additional culling is necessary!

There's no point eating foxes. They are an agricultural pest species. Some of those, such as rabbits and wood pigeon, are edible, others aren't. Squirrel is meant to be quite good, but I've never been tempted.

One thing is certain, Keith. I saw many, many more foxes when I lived in East London than I now see in rural Devon!

They used to sell hedgehog casserole at a pub near Clifford, Herefordshire in the late 1980s; and squirrel casserole two years ago at a pub near Droitwich, Worcestershire- until the animal rights boys found out...

I don't hunt. Never have done. So a ban on hunting doesn't affect me personally one jot, one way or the other.

What does disturb me though is that it's simply another symptom of the New Labour obsession with BANNING things that some particular vocal minority finds "offensive".

The thin end of the wedge, if you like. What will be next? Angling? Don't laugh, because the "Animal Rights" lot have already started on that, now that their precious hunting ban is safely on the statute books ("it's cruelty to fish, fish have feelings").

Where will it all end - a ban on fly-swatting?

And don't think that New Labour are leaving porn alone either, because they aren't (I simply refer you to the melonfarmers website for more about that).

And despite all the self-righteous guff spouted by the anti-hunting lobby about hunting being "barbaric" and having "no place in a civilised society" etc. etc., I also think that a much of the rabid opposition to hunting involves a degree of "inverse snobbery" (some of Keith Rasputin's comments in this thread are very telling it that respect).