Should the fox hunting ban in the UK be lifted?

Question

Or should we allow the government to ban even more English traditional pursuits?

Answer 1

Why hunt foxes? Why not just hunt Chavs instead?

Set a bunch of them loose and send the hounds after them.

Hunters get to practice their traditional pusuit, crime rate goes down, Government saves a fortune on benefit payments, everyone's a winner!!!!

Answer 2

So now we've reached the 21st you'd like us to de-evolve? Take pleasure in a rich-man's folly that involves ripping apart the countryside in pursuit of a single animal; then take equal pleasure in ripping apart the animal? What the Hell is wrong with you people? You think the answer to all Britain's troubles is slaughter of an innocent creature that has nothing to do with it? Grow up!
Fox-hunting is a pointless, useless, archaic, neanderthal and barbaric waste of time, as are its supporters.

I grew up in the countryside, I know the countryside and it's wildlife. Fox-hunting never has had and never will have a place there.

Answer 3

The ban should stay. There is no justification for dogs tearing another creature limb from limb in the name of sport. It has never been proven that hunting controlled fox populations in any way. If hunting eliminated the fox in one area, others soon moved in. Food availability will control the population naturally, and if man were not so wasteful foxes would not have moved into urban areas for easy food sources.

Answer 4

Foxes aren't vermin. They are coming into towns because we are building onto the countryside.

Fox hunting is inhumane. It causes great distress to the fox and to seek fun out of the killing of creatures can never be morally right.

However, it is usually the old or the sick fox that cannot escape the hunt - therefore it could be argued it is a fairly effective means of culling the population.

But, then so is shooting them... if the needs be.

So, no, the hunting ban should not be lifted.

Answer 5

I have no objection to city foxes being humanely culled the place they are inflicting a nuisance yet I do draw the line on the barbaric prepare of having stay foxes torn aside by utilising packs of canines for the leisure of the idle wealthy and their babies.

Answer 6

Fox hunting was an excuse for the upper class to prance around on overfed horses and rip up the countryside.
It should stay banned.

Answer 7

Some of the more liberal states in the USA lift bans for 2 or 3 weeks a year. Just to make sure that the animals don't get over populated. This to me is the best way to go. Then you don't have animals getting over hunted and there not getting over populated either.

Answer 8

No the ban shouldn't be lifted. I live near a wooded area and see foxes passing through my garden at dawn all the time. They've never caused me any problems. I find them to be very shy and beautiful creatures. :-)

Answer 9

no its not pestcontrol its just sport. I worked in the countryside for many years and saw foxes being brought to hunts in cages. If you want to control them you can shoot them. a single man can kill well over a hundred in a week. As for people saying there is a risk of wounding if you shoot them, Well thats just cr@p. I've never wounded anything in my life. If you can't shoot straight you shouldn't be allowed to own a gun.

Answer 10

I do not like fox hunting or the types that seem to do it. However I think it is less cruel than poisoning ot shooting. I do not think total elimination of the fox will solve anything so I think the ban should be lifted. it is perhaps time that the so called country folk who run the hunts started to teach people what they are about instead of treating anyone who does not agree with the sport as some stupid social inferior. It is that attitude towards people that ffuelled the ban