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

From: Joe Taylor (joe.taylor1_at_btinternet.com)
Date: 10/06/04 

Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 14:43:43 +0000 (UTC)

"J Smytje" <JSmythe@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> 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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fish into rivers and ponds to be wrong?

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