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Hunting foxes is simply barbaric
Deborah Atkins writes a very impassioned letter regarding foxhunting, ('Country people In support of hunting', YEP, August 28), being an obvious pro enthusiast.
Alas, however impassioned she may be, it will never change the matter, that hunting with dogs is barbaric.
Her simile of killing rats as vermin, and killing foxes as vermin for sport, is way off mark. Rats are not hunted for sport.
What I do find disturbing, is her assumption that there is a them and us when regarding those who live in the country and those who live in the town, and they should be allowed to do what they like without interference from us townies.
There is no them/us, only us, and what goes on the country is as much our concern as anyone else's.
I would like to remind Deborah Atkins, that she is on a loser here.
There have been many occasions when the pro-hunting lobby have been asked to appear on television in live debate with the anti to support their viewpoint, and with obvious common sense they have refused to do so, for the last time they did, they were so beaten in free debate.
They know they cannot win.
A G Goldsbrough, Leeds Road, Ilkley
I write with reference to Deborah Atkins's letter regarding hunting and would like to inform her that not all rural-living people support blood sports.
What right has she to state that people who do not support such sports are uneducated and squeamish?
To say foxes are hunted because they are vermin and kill other animals is rubbish. There would be no pleasure in killing them humanely by her bloodthirsty associates.
The fox hunting morons would miss the thrill of chasing them until they drop and would not be able to watch the hounds tear them apart.
In future please speak for yourself, Ms Atkins.
B Kerrigan, North Yorkshire
Deborah Atkins, in common with many supporters of blood sports, just does not get it.
People who are against fox hunting are not against it because we don't like it; we are against it because it's cruel.
She says her husband is a gamekeeper and kills animals; I assume he does this because it's his job, not for sport.
I cannot understand anyone who thinks that it is sport to have a pack of dogs chase a fox to exhaustion before tearing it to pieces. It is sick.
Walt Emsley, Leeds 8
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