Fox Hunting?

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Interesting! Thanks for the opinions. I am going through a phase currently, whereby I moved into the beautiful Derbyshire countryside last year, I am from a working class single parent family, I have always loved animals and in particular horses. I used to dream about them as a youngster despite having no contact or association with them. I started off at the age of 13 helping out at a local riding school for free rides, the best way in my opinion you learn so much more, I left school at 16 and went straight into an apprenticship with horses. I did my qualifications over 3 years. Hunting is/was always a sport associated with horses wherever you went most people had been hunting or cubbing at some stage, it was just the norm, within the horsey circle. I asked people about the goings on and whether they had ever seen the fox being caught, most said that they had only been on one hunt where a fox was actually located and caught, others said they had never actually watched the hounds in the act. One said he had seen the hounds catch a fox and it had been over before he had blinked, like 20 hounds killing one fox took seconds. I had never really considered it to be a terrible thing. Just the same as Id never considered factroy farming to be a terrible thing. Since living on our farm I have learned more about real life than I ever could being blinkered in the city. We raised 6 turkeys for christmas last year, we wanted them to have a good diet and some freedom to be birds, they were so inbred to carry as much meat as possible that inspite of our natural feeding methods they could barely stand at the end. A farmer was assigned to help us kill them but he let us down and I had to be part responsible for it, I held them while my partner chopped their heads off, this seemed the quickest and easiest way to do it, people had advised us to break there necks but trust me their necks were fatter than my arms and it would have been a slow painful experience for us all after the first one I had had enough, the other 5 were waiting in there stable looking at us just as they had when we went into feed them or let them out to grass, thoses poor turkeys had no idea what was coming there way. We managed to get through it but I can tell you now it was the worst experience of my life, it was like a horror film but all over my skin and clothes, we plucked and gutted them until midnight and I will never forget it. Since being here we have been informed as to the goings on in slaughter houses, like cows hanging up with no skin left on but still having a pulse. Chickens so pumped up with additives that by the age of 6 weeks there bodies are big enough for us to eat but too big for there little legs to carry them, battery hens with no feathers, pigs not quite stunned before having there throats cut, halal butchers stringing any animal up by one leg and cutting its throat until it bleeds to death. When I think of all the suffering caused in our food chain I get so angry that meat eaters condone the ban, a wild fox who has a bloody good life in comparison to our food, occasionally gets caught and ripped up by 20 hounds within seconds and they say thats cruel whist tucking in to their sunday roast. I am in no way condoning the hunt by pointing out our food chain but double standards spring to mind. I think if people have such strong words they should go and experience real life before backing up any law, our priorities are all wrong and the main reason our food chain is in such a mess is all a mater of money.