Fox hunting

[doppellanger]

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Giant wombat mmm...

I agree that humans are smashing biodiversity, but I think that figure for the percentage of humans is too high, unless it's by volume or some other weird metric.

 

[fed up]

Humans just 0.01% of all life but have destroyed 83% of wild mammals – study

Groundbreaking assessment of all life on Earth reveals humanity’s surprisingly tiny part in it as well as our disproportionate impact

www.theguardian.com

 

[Lee Bushwacker]

But they're not classed as livestock either, except in some parts of Asia. I think the stats are bull, wherever they came from.

They are domestic animals.

 

[Commoner]

Fair point, going out on a horse to be mobile and keep down fox numbers is one thing, I don't think foxes are cuddly wuddly innocents, but there are more effective and far less cruel ways of dealing with the problem than hunting with dogs.

 

[Commoner]

I see the parody, great first post

Thanks for the welcome, I just think the hunting elite (Especially in england, swanforthelough made a good point comparing irish to english hunts) don't do it to keep fox numbers down, there are, after all, more effective and far less cruel ways to do that.

 

[Commoner]

Terribly cruel as well!

Precisely, it's almost as if the cruelty is the main reason for doing it, keeping down fox numbers is just an excuse.

 

[King Silkbeard]

The sooner they ban it the better.

 

[flyingspud]

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Sitting on a skittish animal weighing up to a half ton. What could possibly go wrong?

Have you ever noticed how bonkers horsey women are?

 

[flyingspud]

Precisely, it's almost as if the cruelty is the main reason for doing it, keeping down fox numbers is just an excuse.

Cruelty and the theatre of it all.

 

[Two Pour Bore]

There's two sides to every story so I say we ban foxes and hunting