A FLURRY of activity in your Letters’ page, following the Boxing Day, meets demonstrates that this issue still causes both divide and inaccuracy.
I believe that whether someone supports or opposes hunting in any form is a personal matter but it should be based on facts, not fictions.
RELEVANT NEWS:
- What do Herefordshire's hunts have to hide?
- Security guards protect Herefordshire hunt from protesters
To that end please could I correct a number of the more lurid mistakes in last week’s letters.
• Hunts liaise with the farmers whose land they cross so that they know where stock is and what to avoid – they do not ‘cause havoc’ and livestock are not at risk of worry or attack.
• The fact that trail hunting came into being after the hunting ban does not indicate that they are fox hunts – they are the legal alternative to fox hunts
• Foxes are not and never have been ‘captured and starved to be released with injuries’ – that is totally illogical.
• Drag hunts are a human laid trail over a pre-determined course and nothing to do with traditional fox hunts or the modern equivalent of trail hunting.
• Hunts do not and never have dug out cubs ‘to keep until the next hunt’.
Hopefully the above points will enable your readers to make a more informed decision and I would urge people to study both sides of the argument, including scientific and actual facts, rather than just the emotive comments of fanatics on either side.
Jonathan Jackson
Bartestree
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