What i find really irritating is when people from towns etc and

Comment on Election 2010 Conservative Petitions and Banning Fox Hunting by charlie whitcombe.

What i find really irritating is when people from towns etc and those not directly involved get all on their high horse and decide that those hunting aren’t allowed to do so.
If its a class issue, they should realise that most of the people involved are not upper class but working class country people who ride or work with the hounds etc. It also (in the meets) has a social benefit – in the country this is a valued opportunity to meet others from the community. There would be far less of a reason to do so if it was just a ‘hack through the fields’.
Im a farmer’s son and agree hunting isn’t useful for reducing fox numbers – far more are killed by reckless drivers on the roads each year than through hunting.
As has already been said it is also a far quicker death (apart from the chase itself) than what is more than often the replacement – someone who is a bad shot.
Lastly people need to toughen up a bit – they see these pictures of foxes been hunted but i’m sure many of you if you saw how chickens or other farm animals are killed you would turn into a veggie. Death is disturbing but it just happens – life on a farm and in much of the countryside is muddy, pooey, cold, wet, sometimes painful, tiring and constantly involves what many ‘townies’ view as cuddly little animals being killed.