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Utterly spurious, my mountain bike doesn't tear animals to shreds.
I thought that was where the term "shredding the trails" came from. 😈
No, my squirrel and I are just highly trained.
Oh, very good! 😉
TJ:
Mcboo - you racist idiot. What a stupid thing to say and why do you invent spurious things to attribute to me?
Ahh, personal insults now. Going well. not sure I can find the racist post. Care to enlighten?
Transapp - the post is now removed.
Utility?
We had this with shooting, If you shoot a rabbit or pheasant to eat is that a utility? isn't that the Same as halal.
Does that mean that it has no utility if there is no intention to eat the animal?
I agree TJ that Fox hunting has nothing to do with vermin control anymore, and doubt it ever did.
Fair enough. Always difficult to see!
Out of interest TJ - where do you stand on fishing? Straight question, honestly!
I mean coarse and fly, not commercial
Utility - some purpose / use / to it.
So, lets get this straight then TJ - you're telling us that its ok to be unnecessarily cruel (ie, to inflict more pain and distress on an animal than is absolutley necessary) if it has its justification in "utility"
Is that correct?
ie - the unnessesary cruelty inflicted in Halal slaughter is ok, because it has a 'utility', whereas foxhunting is not ok, because it serves no 'utility' purpose.
I just want to be certain that thats what you're saying, as thats the impression you've given me from your posts above.
Zulu - I have not said any of that as you well know
I like the way Halal slaughter has been pointlessly dragged into the debate, class..
Halal butchery in the UK is at least a regulated industry although not necessarily a humane as "regular" Butchery practise I think it qualifies as less inhumane than tearing animals to bits with angry dogs...
The defense of Fox hunting prior to the ban was not particularly coherent, as the bleating fools tended not to stick to any particular point (See preceeding 5 pages) but the 4 key tennant of the argument were effectively:
1- "It's my tradition/Culture" - (Don't victimise me... Boo Hoo)
2- "its pest control" - (The most efficient/Humane means available?)
3- "Surely all hunting/animal slaughter is 'Cruel' if you ban this you'll have to ban everything" - (Applying a Black and White moral argument to a "Shades of Grey" area)
4- "This has nothing to do with Animal welfare but is in fact Lefty/pinko/townie class War thing" - (Might well be a grain of truth there in many cases, but the same argument cuts both ways too)...
We got the arguments pretty much straight away, it's just they were quite clearly mostly cobblers... Hence the Ban was voted through.
I don't remember the Countryside alliance entering into a proper Dialogue regarding means by which Fox Hunting with hounds could be made more Humane? They didn't they all went a'protesting at their subdugation by those tyranical lefty types and assumed that shouting lots would win the argument.
The point is that we have had in the UK for some time Laws regarding unnecessary animal cruelty that have applied to every British citizen, Fox Hunting with Hounds basically already broke these but it's proponents hid behind the "It's my tradition/Culture" and "its pest control" banner to justify what was essentially just being extra ****ing nasty to small orange dogs. Specific legislation was required to make the point for the hard of thinking...
You can ride a horse in a posh coat surrounded by dogs, you can even have said dogs chase some fabricated fox stink with all the pomp, ceremony and bullshit required to satisfy your social and cultural needs, just leave the Fox shredding bit out - simple enough you'd have thought, but nope you lot just can't help yourselves... Cause your basically, at heart, a bunch of rather nasty gits...
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Cookea - I guess your comments are directed at Z11, but may I ask how much of this is a cruelty to animals and how much of this is a "perceived" class thing - hence the reference to toffs/posh gits etc. Or is it both?
Hence my question about fishing. Certainly not a class-drive sport and one that is enjoyed by many. I can never quite get my head around the idea that the fish is not in pain/or its not cruel to have a lump of metal thrust thought your mouth etc.
What is the utility in coarse fishing, other than recreation. Catch the fish, let it go, catch it again....? Do you draw a moral distinction between this and hunting with dogs?
Personally happy to leave this to individual conscience - legislation likely to remain an ass here.
Still though is there a utility if the aim is to eat the animal?
Looking at shooting/fishing here.
TandemJeremy - Member
...So how do you stand on ... Cock fighting?...
Fair bit of that going on here. 🙂
Its not black and white - there are shades of gray.
Hunting withdogs is by far the most odious - compare with deer stalking where the deer is shot with a high velicity rifle bullet. a skilful deer hunter / successful stalk the deer is killed almost instantly, they need to be culled and the meat is eaten. wheras a successful fox hunt is one with a good long chase.
coarse fishing lives somewhere in between the two. worse than fishing for food but most coarse fishing the animal is retuned to the water alive.
leave it to individual consciences? How about badger baiting? still goes on but a mainly working class pursuit - no one tries to defend that tho do they.
We need legislation to prevent animal cruelty. It would be simple enough to outlaw the cruel practice of fox hunting just the labour party bottled it
It is indeed an issue with lots of grey areas.
I have a view where my personal boundaries lie but happy to let others make their own mind up in the main. But I really can't get my head around fishing though - ok or not? Because actually, the idea that the fish is returned alive is merely saying that the utility (for want of a better word) is merely to see if you can trap the fish. Leaving aside the skill required to do this, it is merely for the pleasure of the angler (no food justfication etc in the main) and hard to really understand that the fish is not suffering some kind of pain/anguish.
But that's for anglers to decide and frankly happy to let hunters do the same thing.
I've always thought sport fishing would disappear overnight if fish could scream.
Why try to divert the question on to other pursuits?
Fishing/Halal butchery/tiddly-winks, not really the point under examination however at least the majority of participants in all of those activities abide by/submit to the applicable laws and/or regulations, where as fox worriers appear to revel in their pretty flagrant circumvention of the law...
Hmmm, a minority in society considering themselves to be above the law, does kind of play to class stereotypes... but clearly that would never be the case..
Is it a class thing? Dunno - TBH I think there is an Element of that (Both ways), I've never been invited on a Fox hunt (I have a pretty boring Middleclass background), and I believe I'm right in saying that none of my Pro-Fox shredding friends have either (Most have some connection to agriculture), Shooting and fishing strike me as being by default more inclusive sports, make of that what you will...
Why try to divert the question on to other pursuits?
Because TJ's buzz word "utility" cropped up. He said shooting has no utility in another thread but killing animals for food does.
my Pro-Fox shredding friends have either (Most have some connection to agriculture
Depends what type of agriculture they are in, If they are in landownership they are more likely to be involved.
Agriculture: the Hunt generally causes more damage than the fox. The gamekeepers near us would have shot the fox well before any chance of a hunt coming along.
Because the logic of the argument is important - especially when legislation is involved. Even at the moral debate level, its important to understand the logic otherwise people can just spout any old BS.
Plus - the utility argument put forward by TJ seems to apply to other so-called field sports such as angling and yet that is less of a contentious issue. Why is that. What is it that really gets people about fox hunting - how much is a pure cruelty to animals thing and if so where are lines to be drawn with other field pursuits and how much is a completely different issue based on perceived class differences or as you put it, inclusive versus exclusive?
Fox hunting is legislated (albeit imperfectly IMO) so not sure of your point in para 2 cookeaa.
revel in their pretty flagrant circumvention of the law
We dealth witt hthis pages ago - no they don't, they hunt within the law, tis either legal, or its illegal, there's no grey area here.
Your political bias has led you to thoroughly unfounded conclusions.
the law says I'm allowed to hunt rabbits with hounds, this is perfectly legal, if a hare accidentally gets killed, then this is still perfectly legal, its not circumvention of the law, its the correct application of the law.
I would contend that "accidental" killing of a Fox by Hounds supposedly only on a drag is the loophole all too easily exploited that's why I called it circumvention rather than breach of the law...
It's a cynical missrepresentation of the actions of a hunt to make them appear to have attempted to comply with the law, we all know it is, just no bugger can proove it...
I have no problem personally with anyone wanting to hunt foxes for "Sport" or "Utility", within the provisions of the Hunting act...
Of course, it is. And I am sure that this was intentional.
trailmonkey / st george - all that could be done by a drag hunt.
well it obviously can't be otherwise hunters would be happy drag hunting.
i'm sure you can see that it's rather pompous to assume that you can cater for peoples' needs when you clearly don't understand what their needs are.
i really can't see that you've posted any argument on here against hunting other than you don't like it which is fair enough, plenty don't, i don't either.
we differ because i don't assume that my values hold primacy and i'm all for diversity and multiculturalism even when it's not a culture that i'm a part of.