Brits hunting foxes
Hey!
For those fellow Brits here who are appalled by so-called 'blood-sports' -like hunting wild foxes with packs of dogs (a great old british tradition!), there's a national petition here to counter the growing noise about lifting the hunting ban next parliament.
I don't think you need to be a Labour party supporter to agree with this or to sign up.
http://www.backtheban.com/
I always thought the best argument I've heard against bloodsports came from Paul McCartney one time when someone asked him in an interview why he was opposed to fox-hunting etc he simply said
'Because it's cruel!'
nuff said?
You can read a bit more about the background here:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6968236.ece
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You can kill people but god forbid you kill a fox.
Dann2000...did the original poster say anything about it being ok to kill people but not foxes? Of course they didn't. The person who wrote "Can we kill the English" was obviosuly joking, though in bad taste. Violence is violence. People I know that are against animal cruelty, including myself, are also passionately against human exploitation and violence. It's not like you have to be anti-human just because you are against cruelty to non-human animals.
I was curious about this too. Mods, can we move this thread? This has nothing to do with PJ.
You're right, I'm over it now, thanks for the illumination.
Apologies for posting in the wrong section, I'm not sure if I can move it now (mods?). This is not really PJ related.
I agree the Labour party is pretty much a spent force these days, and just cynically trying to hold onto their seats. I don't think a change would be such a bad thing. I'm pretty familiar with a lot of their policies, having been involved with implementing and critiquing many of them since 1998. It was obvious to me round about 2002 that they had plateaued and were running out of ideas, and needed to change tack, but they just pressed on regardless.
I've been more open to Cameron's lot but actually this repealing the fox-hunting ban stuff seems to be initiated by them not Labour, as quite a cheap way of increasing their popularity amongst a particular section of their traditional supporters.
Maybe fox-hunting is a diversion, but if we are gonna draw some battle lines anywhere, it seems to me that this is as good an issue as any. In my eyes anybody who can delight in pursuing animals in order to rip them to pieces (with not much left to eat if anybody really wanted to!) is pretty much marking themselves out as a sadist, and one lacking a fairly fundamental human value: compassion.
In my mind if people can't be humane towards animals, it's hard for me to see how they can really be humane towards human beings they don't care much for either.
Anyway think I'm gonna take my things and go home; retire from this forum for a bit and come back when it's speedo-wearing weather. See you all in the summer!
Try and enjoy the new album everybody, and look out for Florence saying no in Den Haag.
Cya
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No, you're right. Don't listen to the person saying there are "bigger" issues. There will always be "bigger" issues. Doesn't mean this is an issue that shouldn't be addressed. Ripping helpless animals to shreds as a hobby is retarded and should be addressed.
"ane the answer is yes...ye fight with me, you kill the anglish!"
"excellent!!! stephen is my name... im the most wanted man on moy oiland...but im not on moy oiland!"
surprising no one else got that
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