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?
It was right. It is a savage act
Reply:People through out history have had many types of hunts and also many types of games. Fox hunting falls somewhere between hunting and playing games. In the deep south people have "fox hunts" but there usually is not a "fox killing" at the end of the race as with the Brits. In the south, the dogs have to find a fox to chase and after a night of running, the hounds are called off, the fox finds his hole, the dogs and owners go home......to hunt/run another day. The Brit's hunt differs because they turn a fox loose at the beginning of the hunt and at the end of the race the dogs are allowed to kill the fox.





I believe a good chase is fine, but a "fox killing" at the end is not good. Pops
Reply:Humans are the only Creatures on the Planet that Hunt Purely for Sport... Funny if the Roles were Reversed. :P
Reply:yes it is right...


and this is a place for questions and yours is really just a pretend question posed so you can preach..
Reply:well its not that it was killing a preditor more so as becoming a world wide sport, and simply we can not allow ourselves to erase one entire group of species....beilive it or not if fox hunting was still around foxes may of very well become extint by now. As goes the food chain it would mess up alot of things. Foxes help keep for example...rabbits quanitys down- seeing that they mass reproduce. But the fox only offsprings one or two. So really by banning it, were saving the fox's....just like the eagles...the lions and tigers and some bears.....we must keep our animal brothers and sisters alive..
Reply:Yes it was.


A natural predator kills for a reason - food or territory/protection. Fox hunting has no point. Is the fox eaten by the hunters? Was it a threat to them? No. It's just cruel and pointless.
Reply:bottom line, it was the right thing to do.
Reply:This is when you kill a fox: When it's about to attack your baby or kill the animals on your farm. You do it quickly and humanely. You use the fur, and you make use of the flesh somehow.





Other than that, there really isn't any use in killing foxes. Leave mother nature be as best you can.





I've never heard of anyone being in danger of foxes.





Fox hunting should be banned.