Soldato
I've watched the video, and maybe she did charge the protester, maybe she didn't. I'm not sure exactly how much control you have over a horse, I've never ridden one. But it was a short video and who knows what has happened before and after. But i'll stick to my original statement that both sides are idiots.
Exactly, the video is hardly impartial. who knows what was said before, maybe the kind of things that you've mentioned. It can be edited easily enough.
Not that I have a great deal of sympathy for the hunters, the very few people I've come across who hunt on horseback have been morons with a superiority complex - but not quite in the same league of unpleasantness as the animal rights protestors I've come across. In truth, I couldn't really care if hunting on horseback is allowed or banned - I suspect that's true for most people.
In my experience, they are just normal everyday individuals. One is a single mum with her daughter running the stable and working 2 other jobs. Certainly not the upper-class toff's one would imagine hunting appeals too, not saying you don't get them but they aren't all like that.
Also, foxes may be cute and furry but they are still vermin and need to be controlled. That being said, hunting them with dogs is a pretty inefficient way of doing it and possibly crueller than other methods.
I've seen and heard about many hunts, I'm against fox hunting in this way, but not one of them has involved a fox. It's all been a scent trail laid and the dogs track that.