Was it right to ban fox hunting?

Don't get me wrong I have no sympathy for a lot of those assholes who have a sick pleasure hunting down a fox to a violent and bloody end but of course we know despite all propaganda that serve as nothing more than an irritating distraction, namely the idea that its nothing more than urban predudice, that the real and only issue that serves as any great good is to minimize the inhumane sufferring to animals. Is hunting by dogs really the only humane way of culling foxes? Personally It has been a suprise to find myself from being 100% anti-fox hunting to being either unsure with many questions to perhaps being pro fox hunting with the exact same philisophical greater good. The fox is a preditor and in its life time it hunts and kills perhaps in the same violent and inhumane way thousands of small mamals. If you kill one fox or one preditor in the most humane way possible and I mean all preditors lions, tigers and foxes how can that not be the right thing considering the mass suffering?

Was it right to ban fox hunting?
Whoa, slow down.





The UK was the only country in the world that still used hounds and horses for hunting. The rest of the world got with the program and realized that that particular way of hunting was cruel to the animal. Therefore, it has been banned. Fox hunting by stalking, sitting, lures and traps are still valid ways to hunt foxes, and are used.





I hunt fox on a regular basis in Germany and the US, with no problems.





The only uproar is that a tradition has ended. Sorry.
Reply:The environment needs predators to be a healthy ecosystem. If we kill all the predators (foxes, lions, tigers, etc) then there is nothing keeping the herbivore population down. Predators usually kill the sick and weak animals, which helps the evolution of stronger animals. Without predators, the population of the other animals explodes. They will eat all of the plants that they can, leaving nothing left and eventually they will all starve. If predators keep the population down, then they will not starve.
Reply:No, I don't think it was right to ban fox-hunting altogether. As I understand it, fox-hunting originated as a way to help farmers protect their poultry and other vulnerable livestock. Though farmers now have better ways of protecting their stock from predators, it really wasn't necessary to ban the sport. It's an exciting tradition, and gets people out into the open air, instead of stuck indoors all the time. However, that doesn't mean that I wouldn't like to see a 'catch-and-release' version, such as some fishermen practice.
Reply:The reason that some people banned fox hunting was because of the way the fox was hunted. The fox would be chased by dogs until it got so exausted it would guve up and either be killed by the dogs or shot by the hunter.





Now in this time most hunters want one shot kills to kill there prey. Its more humane then any of the ways that salauter houses kill. Take a look at this website and see what it is like for animals that are used for there meat like chicken, cows and pig.
Reply:NO, when rabies take over they'll spend millions.........
Reply:No, it is never right for fanatics to force their dubious beliefs upon everyone. This sounds like PeTA at work again. Their ideas are crazy.
Reply:You are very close minded.try looking at the bigger picture.and leave you're ignorant biases behind