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Should we support Fox Hunting or not?
I believe that Fox Hunting should still be allowed all over the United Kingdom, as it has been a traditional sport for over 250 years, which was originally developed as entertainment for the aristocracy and landed gentry.
Foxes are considered to be 'vermin' in the agricultural world and have created a lot of problems for farmers, which have meant damage to livestock and crops. If there is no controlled way or set days to kill these vermin, they will eventually start breeding too much and our agricultural economy will suffer.
By banning this traditional sport, farmers will believe that it is their own responsibility to protect their businesses, and start killing these animals very violently, which is not to say that the way Fox Hunters kill the animals is right, but it has been going for centuries, and it is worth keeping traditions alive.
As this is a very old tradition for the aristocrat Upper Class British, i believe that we should keep this sport alive, as long as it is controlled and only do it on private estates, where people will do as they please. Maybe, Fox Hunting could be done in the form of not hunting real foxes, but using an artificial one, that would not end up getting hurt, meaning that the enthusiasts are able to continue with what they love, and the specially bred beagle dogs can do what they do naturallt, and use their natural instinct.
Webliography:
A website explaining why we should support this very old and traditional sport for the upper classes : http://www.supportfoxhunting.co.uk/
This website explains issues for against Fox Hunting, it is a 'cruel' sport and very unethical : http://www.league.org.uk/content.asp?CategoryID=1712
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Should we support Fox Hunting?
There are two sides to this story, the campaigners that are FOR and the campaigners that are AGAINST.
I will now look at both sides of the argument, as they are both as valid as eachother, meaning that both can be right and wrong.
FOR FOX HUNTING...
This is one of the statements from a very well known and enthusiastic fox hunter, that believes that it is not a cruel sport, and there are now means of determining that it will ever be a cruel and horrible sport for people to continue.
Lord Burns "Naturally, people ask whether we were implying that hunting is cruel... The short answer to that question is no. There was not sufficient verifiable evidence or data safely to reach views about cruelty." ( Lord BurnsChairman of the Inquiry into hunting with dogs. House of Lords, 12 March 2001.)
This quote from 'Lord Burns', does just prove to the people who are againt Fox Hunting that they have a very tough time in trying to persuade the enthusiasts that they "could" be wrong, and there is and will be a great disagreement theoughout history.
Traditionally, there is a Fox Hunting event help on Boxing Day every year, which they claim to have had 320,000 people taking part in 2006. This proves that there are several hundreds and thousand so fo people that still belive it is a perfectly acceptable sport to continue, and shouldcarry on to do so.
The support Fox Hunting website is quite difficult to understand, as ther is a lot of writing, as well as it being rather small. The written sections are very well detailed, and are written in a way to suit the subject spoken about, for example, the personal comments of the poeple that are well established in this firld, and have a very strong opinion.
The letters, or quotes from people, are written in such a way that you can distinguish from the general information.
The target audience of this website are the upper-class people who have a god understanding of english, and can read and write very well, meaning that this website is well suited to them. On the other hand, people who are not associated with the upper-class, are also able to relate to it, but it is very biast to the more suited and aristocrat audience.
Many of the peoples points of view that have written on the web-page, are FOR fox hunting, and believe that there is nothing wrong with the sport, which is very much sterotypical of the audience that it is aimed at.
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