As expected, the letters page of the Western Gazette are dominated by hunting, mostly pro-hunt, but including an anti-Blair for not voting to ban hunting one.
With some of them, the hunting issue gets confused with another agenda (emphasis mine)
"As a fox I would like to express my gratitude to those kind people who have fought to stop my friends and I being hunted by dogs and anything else for that matter. All being well we shall soon be provided with full, unhindered Rambler's Rights to Roam and happily pursue our natural depredations of the countryside's livestock. Mark you, as often discussed over chicken stew down in Ye Olde Den, we are still flattered and curious about the dedicated interest taken in our preservation. It is unanimously agreed however that if it ever came to a choice we would have preferred to take pot-luck and be killed instantly by the hounds rather than subjected to slaughter by the Halal method which entails taking some two minutes of pain to die upside down after waiting in a queue for the privilege which does seem rather cruel."
I can perfectly understand the argument of personal liberty used to defend hunting, I have some sympathy with that view. But to combine a "save hunting" call with a "ban something else" smacks of hypocrisy.
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