This "sport" is unjustifiable! (Foxhunting - is this sport?)

Member Name: jesika_jay

Product:	Foxhunting - is this sport?
Date:	17/07/02 (34 review reads)
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I don't see how anyone can claim that this is a sport. Are we so backward in time that, to us, barbarically terrorising and ripping the guts out of animals is a "sport". To me, the word sport means a game or an event in which people compete and which provides harmless and light entertainment for audiences. Fox hunting- or any type of hunting- is only named a "sport" by some to cover up the abhorent indecency of the act.

In my opinion, people who willingly go out there and get pleasure out of tormenting and torturing an animal in such a cruel way- and those who allow it- have a screw loose in the head! And I don't believe for one minute the argument that foxes are pests for farmers. Ok, I know they are pests but for crying out loud, this sort of behaviour towards them is just ludicrous and I cannot believe that it is still legal in this day and age! I mean, what century do we live in- are we going back to the stone age here?

I agree that foxes are pests on farms- that is a well known fact, but I have lived on farmland and my parents had to deal with this problem; and no, they didn't deal with it by killing anything. They did it by keeping the animals in a more secure enclosure!

I mean, come on, do you think that if people foxhunt, it will get rid of foxes on your farms completely?? Of course not! If you go out and rip one fox's guts out, you're not going to wipe out a whole species, are you? If one fox is barbarically malled apart, there will still be others around to invade your farms, unless you up the farm's security. Animal Cruelty is not the answer to anything.

To me, there is no excuse for this type of "sport". Has anyone read that story in the papers about a year ago about some idiot putting a hadgehog in the microwave? Everyone thought that this was a disgrace- which it was- and the guilty person was given suitable punishment. Well, my point is- how is foxhunting any be
tter and anymore justified than this discusting act? It is just the same- people thinking that they have the right to torture animals in any way they like just for their own pleasure. In a way, foxhunting is even worse, as people are constantly trying to justify the fact that they do it and making others think that there is a point to it.

Foxhunting is nothing more than an excuse for a bunch of bloodthirsty twisted people to go out and get pleasure out of torture without going to jail and without being labelled public enemies by the goverment. But in reality, it is just as bad as any other act of cruelty which has had to face its punishment.

Finally, as for the government, I seem to remember Labour stating five years ago in their election campaign, that one of their priorities was to end this animal cruelty and ban fox hunting. Five years on and they havn't kept their promise- what a surprise! It was just a cheap lie to get them seats in parliament. And in the meantime, thousands more foxes have had to come to their deaths this cruel way while we stupidly wait for them to keep their promise. Will NEVER be voting for them again!

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