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The Lies Fox Hunters Tell
They so busy making up excuses, they forget their own arguments
In today’s world, image is everything.
That’s why Vets for Hunting changed its name.
Hardly surprising, really — it’s like calling your organisation Doctors for Child Abuse.
Who could entrust the care of their beloved companion animal to some monster who gets off on chasing a small, defenceless dog to exhaustion then watching them get ripped apart by a pack of much larger dogs?
I supposed someone told Vets for Hunting that the name wasn’t good branding. Now they call themselves, rather euphemistically, the Veterinary Association for Wildlife Management.
Anyway, last week they were banging on about the need to hunt foxes in order to protect them (seriously).
They claim that since 2004, when hunting was outlawed in the UK, fox numbers have fallen dramatically, and that we need to urgently reinstate fox hunting in order to prevent these beautiful animals from disappearing from our countryside.
This nonsense is even more ridiculous when you consider that the Hunting Act 2004, while technically outlawing hunting with hounds, never actually stopped it. Ask any of the hunt sabs groups around the UK who go out every week in…
