Hunters' secret memo blows apart 'pest control' myth

From: J Smytje (JSmythe_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 10/06/04 

Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2004 12:46:30 +0100

Hunters' secret memo blows apart 'pest control' myth

A leaked Countryside Alliance memo has blown apart the myth that the
fox is a pest and needs to be controlled.The memo from Simon Hart,
chairman of the Countryside Alliance, to Lord Daresbury, chairman of
the Master of Fox Hounds Association, refers to a letter that
Daresbury sent in March this year complaining about the 'shortage of
foxes' - and criticising landowners for not doing enough to encourage
foxes to breed on their land.

Hart claims in the email, printed in Sunday's Mirror that if this
letter was made public, "we would be ridiculed in Parliament and the
media".

This latest revelation comes as no surprise to CPHA. It confirms what
we have always known -- that hunting is a cruel sport and has nothing
to do with pest control. It deals another blow to the Countryside
Alliance's doomed campaign to keep this barbaric practice alive. The
truth is out now -- the pro-hunt lobby can never again resort to the
lie that hunting controls fox numbers.

Prescott blasts pro-hunt protestors at Labour Party Conference

Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott spoke boldly about the pro-hunt
protests in Brighton last week: "Who could miss the braying people
defending hunting with hounds?" he asked delegates. "The savage
tearing apart of foxes by packs of dogs just for enjoyment?

"How can people who claim to care for the countryside drag dead horses
through the streets of this city and call it a legitimate protest? Why
do they always kill animals?"

His message to the hunters was stark: "You live in a parliamentary
democracy. You lost the argument. Now respect what is soon to be the
law of the land."

Lords debate Hunting Bill next week

The Hunting Bill is now in the House of Lords and is to have its
Second Reading next Tuesday, 12th October. Some peers have threatened
to amend the Bill from an outright ban to allow a licensing system.
However this compromise will never be accepted by the Commons and
there has been assurances by the Government that the Parliament Act
will be used to ensure that the Bill reaches the statute books.

Many thanks for your continued support

CPHA
Campaigning to Protect Hunted Animals

RSPCA www.rspca.org.uk
League Against Cruel Sports www.league.uk.com
IFAW (International Fund for Animal Welfare) www.ifaw.org
 www.banhunting.com

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