Even country folk can be anti-hunting (From Worcester News)
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Even country folk can be anti-hunting
8:10am Wednesday 14th April 2010 in Read
SIR – I reply to P Hines’ letter (April 7).
I like the way you use your hunting propaganda to justify your beliefs. In such an enlightened time we can dismiss the views of those who hunt for sport as irrelevant and self-interested.
Go to YouTube and watch some fox-hunting footage. You will soon learn that a fox is not killed instantly by a ‘nip to the back of the neck’. Dogs do not kill in this way – they bring down their prey by a series of bites and tears.
Foxhounds are bred to run more slowly than the fox to keep a good chase. The fox will endure a long and terrifying panic of being chased and will soon become weak, before being overtaken by the hounds.
Michael Foster represented all his voters. The rural county has a mixture of both anti-hunting folk and hunt supporters. Even Worcestershire folk who grew up in the country can be against it. By saying that anti’s are a minority is just a way for you to justify yourself.
LUKE GREGG
Worcester
Comments(2)
crowquill
says...
11:01am Wed 14 Apr 10
Everyone has a right to their opinion absolutely! But to suggest that Michael Foster and his anti hunting bill represented all his voters is frankly utter rubbish. They used emergency powers to force this bill though and did not offer a free vote. That is not representing all his voters and that is not democracy!
I look forward to seeing a free vote on this in the future and then accepting the outcome either way.
Tulstar
says...
2:47pm Wed 14 Apr 10
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Put it to a public vote, and deal with the outcome.
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