Foxhunting - is this sport?

Foxhunting is not really a sport in my opinion for a number of reasons. There aren't really any properly set out rules. There isn't a clear winner amongst the competitors at the end of the hunt. As far as I'm aware there are no official championships, leagues, league tables, individual or team performance ratings or rankings or anything like that. So how exactly do you measure who is good at foxhunting and who isn't? If it is a sport in the true competitive sense of the word then there needs to be a measurement of ability and results, but their aren't any. But is it a sport if you compare it to some other activities that ...

hmmm.... Foxhunting. I used to be staunchly against anyone hunting foxes for sport, for fun, for any reason. Much of me still is. I'd certainly not like to go out on a hunt. But, in recent years something changed. Legislation was put forward by city-folk to change the law and ban foxhunting. Why? Because many people thought it was barbaric. This stirred me up somewhat. A great deal of commercial meat and egg production is barbaric. Far more barbaric than the hunting of a fox. Chickens are raised in tiny cages, given no sunlight and pumped full of drugs. Livestock are killed in totally inhumane ways, often not being fully killed by whatever instrument is being used to ...

I knew I should never have wandered into Speakers Corner ... Firstly I must clarify - I've never been foxhunting, but I have for quite a number of years now lived in rural locations within the British Isles, and I don't think any would argue that my lifestyle is pretty 'basic,' so I don't have much to associate myself with the upper classes. But I am constantly struck by the hypocrisy associated with the subject of foxhunting and after many years of coming across such outbursts feel it's time to give people food for thought. Firstly, lets get the myth out of the way that foxes eat livestock to survive - they don't. In fact, the areas ...