Foxhunting is now illegal (From York Press)

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Foxhunting is now illegal

10:18am Tuesday 11th January 2011 in Letters By Reader's letter

YOUR newspaper carried an article on the annual tradition of Boxing Day hunts (The Press, December 28).

Surely your reporter must realise that fox hunting is now illegal and has been for some time. This story could have been written at any time in the past 100 years. The out-dated custom of ripping foxes apart was democratically voted against as being representative as the will of the majority of the people of Britain.

Clearly people still involved with what used to be called fox hunting are having a problem adjusting to the change in the law as they suggest it was the weather conditions that prevented hunting from happening, rather than the law itself.

The original killing of animals has been rejected by the majority of people – perhaps it is time to move on from the images of young children with hunt hounds (unfortunately captioned ‘young blood’) and journalistically allow this practice to fade into history.

Jonathan Bonner, Huntington Road, York.

Comments(6)

York Fox says...
11:18am Tue 11 Jan 11

Jonathan, the article doesn't mention foxes or fox hunting once. It mentions the hunt, the horses, the hounds, but obviously as fox hunting has been banned they drag hunt. No little animals harmed. Except of course the foxes, which are simply shot or trapped instead. Surely you could read that? No?