SIR – The hunters have been quick to point out that hunting is more popular than before. Hunting without the fox, taking the cruelty out of it has, as we said it would, made hunting more popular.
Why, then, do the extremists in the hunting fraternity want to turn the clock back to cruelty by repealing the Hunting Act? Is the quest for repeal really because the hunters are breaking the law and don’t want to be caught and convicted criminals?
Or is it simply that the hunters so loved their cruelty and abuse to animals for sport, that they want to be free once more to abuse for sport whatever the majority may think of their perverse pleasures?
Whichever reason is the truth of it, neither is a good reason for changing the law.
Douglas Batchelor, chief executive, League Against Cruel Sports, New Sparling House, Holloway Hill, Godalming
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