Poll: Fox Hunting

Do you support proposed amendments or repeal of the Hunting Act?

  • Yes, I think the Act should be repealed.

    Votes: 106 20.1%

  • Yes, I think E&W should come in line with Scotland.

    Votes: 35 6.6%

  • No, I think the Act should not be altered.

    Votes: 387 73.3%
  • Total voters
    528
if the majority want it back I'm ok with that.

just try not to jump your horse over a hedge infront of my car thanks I don't like buying new trousers and pants or cars.


Thinking about it makes me miss living in the country.
 
Buckster said:
fox hunting, whale hunting (sorry scientific research), dog festivals

there is some nasty stuff out there

we're not particularly nice as humans really - ok you can argue wild animals eat animals alive etc - but with our "intelligence" you'd think we'd put some of it into animal welfare
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Yup.

"but nature is harsh animals do it"

Well guess you won't be taking those anti biotics next time, becuz well nature derp.
 
spudbynight said:
Tell me how a fox hunt impacts on your life?

You just want to impose your own, outdated, sense of morality on others.
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Assuming that's a genuine reply, in what way is concern for animals outdated?

Younger generations tend to be more against hunting than the older generations, so if anything is outdated, it's dressing up like a doofus and chasing a fox on horseback.
 
Avenged7Fold said:
Pest control isn't just about livestock. Here in Surrey there are many many foxes. Every bin day there is food scattered all over the streets from where foxes have gotten into the waste food bins. People in my local community have started seeing rats more and more due to the free food made available to them. My cat has been attacked twice and my gf's dog has been attacked once already this year by a fox. A good friend of mine works in a vet round the corner in Weybridge and she has told me that there has been a significant rise in cases where foxes cause injuries to pets. This time of year you can hear them most evening shrieking to one another.

Some idiot mum let her 7 year old kid try and pet one while waiting for school to start, obviously the child received a couple of nips.

My main concern is disease and cleanliness more than anything else. I am just sick of finding banana peals and melon husks on my driveway each morning :(
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Well that's what mean, why is the answer "kill them" instead of putting latches on bins? It's ridiculous.

It's sad that we humans tend to just stick 2 fingers up at nature when it gets in our way.
 
Elixir said:
Well yes, but it comes from there because they can out-price the rest of the world and the thought of paying 100 pounds more for a phone is enough to make people forget about the working conditions.

The truth is you just don't care enough to sacrifice your lifestyle.
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Obviously off topic but....

Other than samsung/lg which build in Korea (as well as China) name me a mass market (ie not jolla/vertu) company that does not build mobile phones in a low wage country. And before you suggest Apple/Blackberry with their Brazil or Malaysia factories, both those countries would be classed as low wage. Motorola closed it's US site where it 'put together the units'....

Some of us do actually care but we can't exactly fix the issue if there is no other option and that's the fault of the seller not the buyer :rolleyes:

There's also the argument that if they didn't have these 'low pay jobs' they'd be even worse off, now don't get me wrong I think the working conditions (if everything is said is true - likely is worse than reported) then I agree something needs to be done about it.
 
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Rossi~ said:
Well that's what mean, why is the answer "kill them" instead of putting latches on bins? It's ridiculous.

It's sad that we humans tend to just stick 2 fingers up at nature when it gets in our way.
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Latches or optional use of the bins were requested by the community when it was introduced and denied as it was deemed a waste of the bin boy's time. I do sneak my food waste into another bin now when i can be bothered but received a warning for it earlier this year.

I agree there are alternatives which don't require the killing of foxes but I don't have the power to implement them. I don't support fox hunting but i can see merits in culling of animals for pest control.
 
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FoxEye said:
Assuming that's a genuine reply, in what way is concern for animals outdated?

Younger generations tend to be more against hunting than the older generations, so if anything is outdated, it's dressing up like a doofus and chasing a fox on horseback.
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Younger generations become older generations, then they look back on their younger selves and think 'Jesus, I was a right prat'.
 
Thompson_NCL said:
Younger generations become older generations, then they look back on their younger selves and think 'Jesus, I was a right prat'.
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There are plenty of idiotic adults, too.

And if you're suggesting that people "grow out" of having any concern for animal welfare, well, you're just plain wrong. Some people do decide that money is more important, however. Sell outs have always existed ;) As have people whose convictions are about strong as a wet paper bag.
 
You want pest control, use a rifle.

If ISIS members were roaming the countryside then get those hunting dogs out, a quarry that deserves an agonising end.
 
Should be repealed.and a line drawn in animal rights. Anything that falls outside that calculation is automatically banned.

Currently it makes no sense when there are worse things that are perfectly legal. Including other methods of killing foxes. The ban had ZERO to do with animal rights and all about class war.
 
We are a country where the majority of people have at some point kept animals in captivity for their own amusement.

This is just class warfare.
 
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