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Press Release
16 March, 2002.
Suggested ‘compromises’ on hunting are totally unacceptable
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The Countryside Action Network’s response to speculation about possible ‘compromises’ on hunting is unequivocal. There can be NO compromise that involves the loss of any legitimate country sport, or any ‘regulation’ that would require hunts to ‘justify’ their existence.
Today’s Times suggests that three-year licences would be issued to hunts – but only if they could prove they were ‘needed’ for fox control. Hare coursing would be abolished. The proposal would forbid practices such as the “flushing out” of foxes that have gone to ground and, presumably, the digging of foxes for despatch. The proposal might also limit the number of riders allowed to ‘chase the fox’.
C.A.N. spokesman, Janet George, said: “This is undoubtedly an attempt to ‘spin’ a compromise that would get the Government off the hook and pacify its backbenchers. It is also an attempt to split the country sports community. If this is a serious proposal, it is a dishonest attempt to kill off country sports by slow strangulation and expensive regulation. In some areas, hunting provides a relatively small part of the fox culling required. In others, the ability of hunts to carry out up to 70 percent of the required cull would be severely hampered by the inability to despatch foxes that go to ground.”
If the Government believes it must ban hunting, then it should have the courage of its dubious convictions and try to do so, and face the consequences!” Mrs. George said. “Otherwise, it should tell its backbenchers it’s time for them to grow up and start concentrating on serious issues.”
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