Hunts in the Country

Hunts in the Country!

Be very careful what you say – you may be misrepresented.

Regarding Fox Hunting, this is another excuse for rent-a-mob to get mobilised.

You see, these people just want a riot, but need some fragile justification for it.

Now, we all know about Fox Hunters – toffs, the lot of ‘em! Lots of noise and spectacle. Yeah, yeah, they say it’s all about control, not extermination of the fox, but not a bit of it. Observe: skin-tight pants, shiney black kinky boots, whips, and lots and lots of bouncing up and down. Do that in Soho, people will pay you for it. Couple of drinks before, some racey sex after, great fun! Foxhunters are getting their rocks off, and I don’t blame them. If I had the time and the money, so would I.

But please consider the numbers: according to a TV documentary by no less than Alan Wicker ??? donkey’s years ago, the hunters kill about 2,000 foxes per year: but farmers shoot around 40,000 to 60,000 per year: and motor car drivers kill 120,000 plus a year. The numbers are about the same, give or take a vixen or two, right now.

So if you really want to save the fox, stop driving about.

But that’s not practical, so what about the farmers? Well, they are the users and workers of the land that is the habitat of the fox, and owned (most likely) by the toffs that are the foxhunters (whatever they say).

What they do say, is to tell the farmers not to kill all of the foxes, so that they can go out and hunt. Justification again.

But, if you take away the hunters right to charge about the countryside, you also remove the implied restrictions on the farmers to kill the foxes any way they can, so you will end up with more foxes being killed. Yes, it’s paradoxical, but reality.

So save the fox: let them hunt.

The NewLabour waste-of-space hunting ban has had no noticable effect, and was just a smack-the-toff operation (they would probably do that in their own time, know what I mean?)

The recent attacks by urban foxes that have been reported are nothing to do with hunting bans or no bans. Consider: the fox would run along hedgerows, hunting for vole and rabbit. Hedgerows have been largely removed, and then the land set-aside under daft EEC regulations, so the whole countryside looks derelict, and the fox must go elsewhere. Birth of the urban fox! But no problem until recently. So what has changed?

Consider the urban fox: normally very timid, looking for food, finds food in towns; but now we have wheelie bins! Thanks for that, Veggie Benn! Which means that urban fox has to work harder and become more aggressive to get food. Result: urban fox attacks children!

The coalition government has and is doing a lot to unravel the maniacal legislations of the last thirteen years. The ineffective hunting ban should go too. And farmers should be encouraged to use the land to grow crops for local use, so that we reduce the dependence of transporting food by air all around the world.

Maybe, on environmental grounds, they could replant some hedgerows and get more life back into the countryside.