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  • "I agree completely with all Mrs Honey's comments and I don't eat meat either but appreciate that other people do and I suppose that is their right. However I would much prefer that people took into consideration all sorts of things to do with the animals they are eating (i.e. how they have been treated whilst alive and how they have been slaughtered). Unfortunately this often does not happen because many people simply do not care and others are in blissful ignorance of some of the horrific facts. I think it is undoubtedly true that some animals that are killed during hunting (by being shot cleanly) do not suffer anywhere near as much as other animals killed in abattoirs.
    But the issue originally being discussed here was not the consumption of animals. It was about hunting with dogs which has been made illegal. In my opinion, though, anyone who derives pleasure from killing or from seeing another living creature killed is not the sort of person I would wish to associate with."
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Sun shines on New Year's Day hunt

The Derwent Hunt arrives in Thornton-le-Dale for the New Year's Day meet. The Derwent Hunt arrives in Thornton-le-Dale for the New Year's Day meet.

THE sun’s emergence after days of rain and cloud came just in time for the traditional New Year's Day hunt at Thornton-le-Dale.

About 200 people turned up to see the colourful spectacle as the Derwent Hunt set off from The Hall in the village near Pickering.

Chloe Dixon, who works as a barmaid at the pub, said about 50 riders and 30 hounds took part.

The hunt traditionally meets every New Year's Day at The Hall, having done so since it was founded in 1808 by Richard Johnson Hill, who lived there and kenelled the hounds there.

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