Weststander
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I wouldn't class myself as an animal lover - never been a great one for pets or anything like that.
But I abhor cruelty to animals and Fox-hunting is barbaric. How anybody can even consider that it should be legal is beyond me.
And it really annoys me when people who support it come up with one of two defences:
1. "It's the politics of envy". Oh no it isn't. If I wanted to charge around the countryside on a horse wearing silly clothes in pursuit of a fox I could probably order my finances quite easily to let me do so. But the idea repulses me.
2. "They don't understand the countryside". If that is a call for us to descend to the level of an animal which might kill just for the sake of it, I'm flabbergasted. Barbaric is an inadequate word.
I’ve heard the you don’t understand countryside baloney too.
A load of arrogant posh people, with their rural working class henchmen, gaining much joy from seeing hounds tear apart a fox. Whilst they’re are it, assaulting hunt monitors, because the police aren’t around. Huntsmen are all scum of the the earth.
By the same reasoning, badger baiting should be legalised, to deal with TB passed on from badgers to cattle.