Who is standing up for the ugly chickens? (Foxhunting - is this sport?)

Member Name: thedevilinme

Product:	Foxhunting - is this sport?
Date:	28/10/08 (211 review reads)
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Advantages: Good sports!

Disadvantages: Its not an issue for law.

One of New Labors most pathetic moments, amongst many, over the last eleven years was the majority vote to ban foxhunting with hounds, yet at the same time voting for the invasion of Iraq and so the death of thousands of innocent people, including children. Protecting the fox on some sort of childish class war line seemed more important to them than little babies in Baghdad. Rather ironically, foxes suffered the most casualties on the first few night of bombing as they and the rats had the run of Baghdad and the only living things brave enough to be in town as the Cruise Missiles rained in. Why weren't those same MPs concerned at least about Iraqi Desert foxes being disintegrated in the ultimate seek and destroy mission by man. What exactly was the point New Labor were trying to make on foxhunting?

I remember watching the Labor MPs trailing in to vote on banning the toffs from doing a 500-year-old country pursuit and then waving their papers around when they finally won the vote, and you just thought how sad. The Class War only rages in England because of silliness like that. Now don't get me wrong, im not particularly in favor of fox hunting, but equally I don't think its worth so much parliament time as it got back then. We have seen with the recent stock-market crash that the ruling classes have far more damaging and elite pursuits where we could really nail them for if we took the time out to do just that. As far as I'm concerned country pursuits are irrelevant when it comes to parliamentary time - and what's wrong with people enjoying themselves in the sticks like they always have?

One of the great lies about banning foxhunting is it would cut the number of foxes being killed; more killed this year than ever before, hunts still raging across the land. Foxes are now labeled as vermin and shot on sight. And if the Foxes are lucky enough not to get in the crosshairs then they are usually poisoned or gassed by cyanide traps, traps that catch other animals. At least before the ban they had a chance of escaping the hounds and hunt. I know the red coats up on horses blowing their horns are intimidating to some but the amount of foxes they catch a year with the dogs when it was legal was rather small in context. In fact more hunting hounds died on the hunt or are put down because of their age than the number of foxes actually killed by the hounds. The fox wins there too.

The hunts have got around the ban on hunting with hounds by employing falconers and farmers to stand by with an alternative method of kill as the hounds close in on the fox. Because the police can't be there at that moment of kill it's anyone's guess what happens at that moment. I'm pretty sure the majestic bird of prey doesn't swoop down and fly off with the fox. What we do know is the hunts haven't disbanded and some have actually gotten bigger in an act of countryside defiance. Drag hunting is not quite the same buzz I'm sure for all involved but it's the only way they can keep hunting and so they have gone along with it and people haven't been fired. The hunt saboteurs still do battle with them on the hunts and if you didn't know nay different you could have sworn this is a sport for them too, getting a similar buzz from it. Hating people from a higher or lower class has always been a national sport here.

One presumes animal-libbers like foxes because they are cunning and cute. The same libbers don't seem too keen on standing up for rats and woodlice. The Icelandic bank crisis revealed one British cat charity had some eleven million pounds frozen in the accounts out there but no 'Save the Pike' charity holdings? It seems cute is where the money is. No one seems too keen on rescuing the ugly chickens from the Foxes jaws.

There's an adorable girl on dooyoo who has recently made friends with one of those cute and cunning foxes. The fox in question sits on a piece of grass around the back of her house waiting to be fed by its new friend. She has rats as pets anyway so would make friends with most living things, but clearly the Fox is the king of the hunting chain in Britain, the lions and tigers revered around the world for equal hunting talents. Why do we admire some animals and not others? Would hunt saboteurs bother with posh blokes in red coats if they were chasing rats around Surrey? The answer is probably no. This is about the admiration of the Fox and the dislike of the ugly chicken in the food chain if you ask me. Are the scruffy working class 'sabs' the chicken and the smart men on the horses the fox?

My theory on why animal libbers only seem to want to protect attractive and roguish animals is because they don't feel they will ever have those qualities in themselves. If you look at the type of people hidden behind those Palestinian style neck scarves that are heavily armed with megaphones outside of 'Huntingdon Life Sciences' etc, they are not the most attractive looking bunch. These are people who value animal's welfare above humans because of the cuteness and vulnerability of animals. Yet the Fox has none of those qualities. Please can we get this into perspective guys...

Noting to do with foxes but Russell Brand isnt funny!lol.

Summary: Humans rule!