Ban blood sports in Australia/Britain

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Hi All,

 

In Australia, the Victorian State government is trialling a bounty offer of

$10 a tail for fox tails

during July to September of this year. This will probably encourage extreme

cruelty to

foxes. Foxes are a most misunderstood animal. They do not breed

uncontrollably

and in fact breed least when there is little food around. They are also

territorial.

 

Also re hunting in Australia, for those who wish to help stop the Game Bill

in NSW Australia, if you have not already written to complain about the

Bill, please write now since time is running out and the Government has been

waiting for the controversy to die down to push this cruel hunting

bill through. Visit http://www.iinet.net.au/~rabbit/gamebill.htm

to send a letter of condemnation about the legalising of hunting with dogs

etc in Australia.

 

Remember, Scotland has banned the hunting of foxes with dogs and if they can

do this

so can we.

 

Here is the latest update from the Britain where hunting foxes with packs of

dogs

is considered a " sport " and foxes are often torn apart alive by dogs or dug

out

and allowed to be ripped aparty by the dogs by these " civilised " Brits in

the name

of entertainment.

 

Forward from the League Against Cruel Sports in the UK..

 

Anglia TV special report: " The fox on the run "

Cover Story strand

Wednesday 12 June at 10.50 pm

 

www.angliatv.com

 

EAST ANGLIA HUNTERS DENY CLAIMS MADE IN SECRET FOX FILM

 

Hunting people from the East of England and anti-blood sports activists

clash in an Anglia TV Cover Story documentary tonight (Wed) that examines

new

allegations of malpractice within foxhunting, and talks to people whose

lives would be ruined by the Parliamentary moves to outlaw it.

 

Secret filming by the League Against Cruel Sports claims to show artificial

earths - manmade fox shelters - in a wood near Bury St Edmunds which is

hunted by the Suffolk Hunt. Anti-hunt groups say artificial earths are part

of the practice of breeding foxes for hunting, something which is against

the rules if the Master of Foxhounds Association. But hunts have

consistently

denied they breed foxes.

 

Investigator Mike Huskisson says the League discovered three earths with

concrete pipes leading to denning chambers in Thorpe Wood. " We've not found

that many in a single wood before. " And Phyllis Campbell-McRae of the

International Fund for Animal Welfare says evidence that foxes are being

encouraged to breed " shoots a hole through the argument " that they need to

be

hunted as pests.

 

But the Suffolk Hunt, which uses the land, tells the programme the earths

are old and disused. And Darren Hughes of the Countryside Alliance claims

the concrete pipes are associated with military activity in the area.

 

Cameras go out with the Fitzwilliam Hunt in Cambridgeshire and film their

supporters clashing with sabboteurs. Hunt master George Bowyer says: " All

they are trying to do is wind us up a bit. We're very careful not to react

because that's what they want us to do. So we just ignore them and carry

on. "

 

Also in the programme, ITN's political correspondent John Sergeant says

many Labour MPs regard a foxhunting ban as a personal mission. " A lot of

Labour MPs say 'I may not have done a lot in my time as an MP, but one thing

I

can be really sure I want to do is to ban foxhunting,' "

 

Stephen Hill, a farrier from Great Gidding, says a ban would cut his work

by 30% and Caroline Littler, who runs a nearby livery yard, says: " It'll be

a disaster. I could lose my job and the people I employ will lose their

jobs. "

 

Kennelman Gary Edwards, an ex-Royal Marine, blames Tony Blair personally

for the threat to his livelihood. " He's ruining my life - or trying to. "

 

 

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