Re: Hunters' secret memo blows apart 'pest control' myth

From: Nick Maclaren (nmm1_at_cuss.cam.ac.dc)
Date: 10/06/04 

Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2004 12:53:03 +0100

On Wed, 06 Oct 2004 12:46:30 +0100, J Smytje <JSmythe@hotmail.com>
wrote:

>Hunters' secret memo blows apart 'pest control' myth

Most of us have known for some time the myth of pest control
necessity. The RSPB for example have slaughtered millions of animals
in a completely unnecessary quest for genetic purity within wildlife,
something the nazis would be proud of if they had got away with it.

>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".

Nothing new there then.

>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.

But they will. Nobody ever seems to have noticed that most fox hunt
occur over arable land in non livestock areas, so completely
unnecessary.

>
>Prescott blasts pro-hunt protestors at Labour Party Conference

Well done John.

>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?"

Because they are yellow perverts and always have been. They said if we
gave them enough rope..............
Obviously not very bright these pro hunt prats.

>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."

Here, here.

>
>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

Well done lads.

Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

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