Ereiam_jh
Well-Known Member
On Banning Hunting
"The Hunting Act is severely flawed and unworkable... For an Act of Parliament purporting to relieve animal suffering to do the exact opposite is very sad. That the RSPCA, which does immensely important work on so many animal welfare fronts, has been party to this fiasco is a tragedy."
John Hobhouse
Chairman of the RSPCA 1967-75
Letter to The Times - 12th September 2005
"The League sees the Prosecution Fighting Fund as the next important step in the campaign to stop hunt barbarity forever. As we take more hunts that have broken the law to the courts and proven them guilty, more are going to think twice before continuing their disgusting hobby. A regular gift of £5 a month helps us to achieve this. Your donation can save lives."
League Against Cruel Sports
Support the Hunting campaign webpage - 15th March 2007
"As one of those who voted for the Act, I made it clear beforehand in many discussions with the pro-hunting lobby that I expected farmers to shoot more foxes (an acknowledged agricultural pest) after the Act was passed."
David Rendel
Former Liberal Democrat MP for Newbury
Letter to the Independent - 1st December 2006
"There is not a subject under the sun that is better suited to us (the Labour Party), for raising our morale in the constituencies, than a ban on fox hunting."
Dennis Skinner MP
House of Commons - 17th June 2004
"It is not a matter of great significance in animal welfare, but it has become totemic."
Tony Banks MP (the late Lord Stratford)
BBC Radio 4 - 24th November 2003
"Now that hunting has been banned, we ought at last to own up to it: the struggle over that Bill was not just about animal welfare and personal freedom, it was class war."
Peter Bradley
Former Labour MP for The Wrekin
Sunday Telegraph - 21st November 2004
On Policing
"I do not have any dedicated resources to police hunts...the resources have to come from elsewhere. I am concerned that a hunting ban could cause difficulties."
Chief Constable of Devon and Cornwall
Western Morning News - 24th February 2004
"...our duty as police officers..... is to try and enforce the law without fear or favour and that does become increasingly difficult when a law is particularly unfavourable. It will be extremely difficult to police and it will be extremely resource intensive..."
Chief Inspector Jan Berry
BBC Radio 4 'Any Questions' - 23rd October 2004
On Shooting
"There simply aren't any wounded foxes from shooting in the countryside as far as I'm concerned."
Prof. Stephen Harris
(Scientist commissioned by the Campaign for the Protection of the Hunted Animal)
Shooting Times - 12th June 2003
"There is not absolute proof that wounded foxes suffer..."
Jackie Ballard
Director General RSPCA
Letter - 9th May 2005
"..the notion that gun packs merely use dogs to flush foxes out into the open where they can be humanely shot is false....such hunts involve great cruelty."
League Against Cruel Sports
Letter - 28th May 1997
"Using dogs to flush (the fox)...to be shot...has to be 100 miles better than the current situation for animal welfare."
Jackie Ballard
Director General RSPCA
BBC Radio 4 - 17th June 2003
"Game shooting is horrible and nasty... the RSPCA will get around to try and end this."
Jackie Ballard
Director General RSPCA - February 2003
On Wild Mammal Protection
"...I give the hon. Member for Montgomeryshire notice that if his shoddy piece of work comes back before the House again I will do my utmost to ensure that it is blocked time and time again."
Andrew Dismore, Labour MP for Hendon
House of Commons - 6th February 2004
2nd Reading of Wild Mammals (Protection) (Amendment) Bill
On Pest Control
"If hunting is not an efficient pesticide, it has no purpose."
Ann Widdecombe MP
House of Commons - 18th March 2002
"In pest control, welfare is treated as a secondary priority over efficiency in many cases...it appears, across the board, that 'pest control' has been the justification for some of the worst excesses in animal welfare."
Dr Nick Fox
Welfare Aspects of Shooting Foxes Report (2003)
On Deer Welfare
"I couldn't give a toss about you and your deer"
Endymion
HHO Forum
"The Hunting Act is severely flawed and unworkable... For an Act of Parliament purporting to relieve animal suffering to do the exact opposite is very sad. That the RSPCA, which does immensely important work on so many animal welfare fronts, has been party to this fiasco is a tragedy."
John Hobhouse
Chairman of the RSPCA 1967-75
Letter to The Times - 12th September 2005
"The League sees the Prosecution Fighting Fund as the next important step in the campaign to stop hunt barbarity forever. As we take more hunts that have broken the law to the courts and proven them guilty, more are going to think twice before continuing their disgusting hobby. A regular gift of £5 a month helps us to achieve this. Your donation can save lives."
League Against Cruel Sports
Support the Hunting campaign webpage - 15th March 2007
"As one of those who voted for the Act, I made it clear beforehand in many discussions with the pro-hunting lobby that I expected farmers to shoot more foxes (an acknowledged agricultural pest) after the Act was passed."
David Rendel
Former Liberal Democrat MP for Newbury
Letter to the Independent - 1st December 2006
"There is not a subject under the sun that is better suited to us (the Labour Party), for raising our morale in the constituencies, than a ban on fox hunting."
Dennis Skinner MP
House of Commons - 17th June 2004
"It is not a matter of great significance in animal welfare, but it has become totemic."
Tony Banks MP (the late Lord Stratford)
BBC Radio 4 - 24th November 2003
"Now that hunting has been banned, we ought at last to own up to it: the struggle over that Bill was not just about animal welfare and personal freedom, it was class war."
Peter Bradley
Former Labour MP for The Wrekin
Sunday Telegraph - 21st November 2004
On Policing
"I do not have any dedicated resources to police hunts...the resources have to come from elsewhere. I am concerned that a hunting ban could cause difficulties."
Chief Constable of Devon and Cornwall
Western Morning News - 24th February 2004
"...our duty as police officers..... is to try and enforce the law without fear or favour and that does become increasingly difficult when a law is particularly unfavourable. It will be extremely difficult to police and it will be extremely resource intensive..."
Chief Inspector Jan Berry
BBC Radio 4 'Any Questions' - 23rd October 2004
On Shooting
"There simply aren't any wounded foxes from shooting in the countryside as far as I'm concerned."
Prof. Stephen Harris
(Scientist commissioned by the Campaign for the Protection of the Hunted Animal)
Shooting Times - 12th June 2003
"There is not absolute proof that wounded foxes suffer..."
Jackie Ballard
Director General RSPCA
Letter - 9th May 2005
"..the notion that gun packs merely use dogs to flush foxes out into the open where they can be humanely shot is false....such hunts involve great cruelty."
League Against Cruel Sports
Letter - 28th May 1997
"Using dogs to flush (the fox)...to be shot...has to be 100 miles better than the current situation for animal welfare."
Jackie Ballard
Director General RSPCA
BBC Radio 4 - 17th June 2003
"Game shooting is horrible and nasty... the RSPCA will get around to try and end this."
Jackie Ballard
Director General RSPCA - February 2003
On Wild Mammal Protection
"...I give the hon. Member for Montgomeryshire notice that if his shoddy piece of work comes back before the House again I will do my utmost to ensure that it is blocked time and time again."
Andrew Dismore, Labour MP for Hendon
House of Commons - 6th February 2004
2nd Reading of Wild Mammals (Protection) (Amendment) Bill
On Pest Control
"If hunting is not an efficient pesticide, it has no purpose."
Ann Widdecombe MP
House of Commons - 18th March 2002
"In pest control, welfare is treated as a secondary priority over efficiency in many cases...it appears, across the board, that 'pest control' has been the justification for some of the worst excesses in animal welfare."
Dr Nick Fox
Welfare Aspects of Shooting Foxes Report (2003)
On Deer Welfare
"I couldn't give a toss about you and your deer"
Endymion
HHO Forum
