Update - Campaign to Ban Hunting (Britain/Australia)

[Guest guest]

Hi,

If anyone has time to write to Prime Minister Tony Blair

in Britain, and ask that hunting be banned in Britain, please do so.

I believe Australia (NSW) recently legalised hunting animals with dogs

so a ban on hunting in Britain would help our cause in our continuing

efforts

to ban hunting animals with dogs here.

Kind regards,

Marguerite

 

Update - Campaign to Ban Hunting

(Britain) League Against Cruel Sports 20th Sep 02

 

The Countryside Alliance March for hunting takes place this weekend and the

debate on hunting is back in the public spotlight. We will be working hard

to ensure that our point of view gets across to viewers, listeners and

readers of the media over the next few days.

 

The hunters have desperately sought to convince the public that the march

is about wider rural concerns in an attempt to improve the numbers marching

on Sunday. However, nobody should be fooled by this. The Countryside

Alliance is first and foremost about hunting. This is their attempt to

deflect

the government away from the inevitable ban on hunting which will come if

Government promises are kept.

 

Also, last week, Alun Michael, the minister in charge of the hunting issue,

held a series of hearings on the hunting to inform what he decides to next

.. The evidence presented to the government last week confirms what we have

always known, that hunting is cruel, it is unnecessary and it plays no role

in controlling foxes.

 

Hunting Alliance offers concessions

 

Interestingly evidence presented by scientists from the Game Conservancy

Trust, invited to the hearings at the nomination of the Countryside

Alliance,

indicates a series of major concessions. Dr Jonathan Reynolds's paper in

session 1C says that " Hunting with dogs has no utility to control hare

numbers because bags are typically small. " and that " Mink hunting has little

apparent utility in this context. Bags are typically small and disturbance

of

otters is a particular conservation concern. "

 

While the League is delighted at these concessions, we will not make any

compromise ourselves. Only a total ban on hunting with dogs is acceptable.

Nothing else satisfies the moral case against cruelty and the scientific

evidence that hunting is cruel, unnecessary and has no utility value in the

countryside. "

 

See the hearings on video and read the evidence submitted at the DEFRA

website at www.defra.gov.uk

 

Keep up to date with the campaign and our latest press releases at

our website www.league.uk.com

 

Sign the online petition and get more information at the

www.banhunting.com website

 

Write to or email your MP and Tony Blair, more details are in the

political section of the League website.

 

Thanks

 

Dave Ward

 

Campaign Co-ordinator

League Against Cruel Sports

 

P.S. Don't be too disheartened by the extensive media coverage that the

hunters will get this weekend. The people who really matter, the general

public and their representatives in Parliament, MPs continue to strongly

support our campaign for a ban. Despite the vocal minority on the streets

of London this weekend, they remain a minority and the majority view,

that hunting must be banned will prevail in the end.

 

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