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Nate Cummings 11A

Fox Hunting Coursework

I have been given the task to research and find information on the hypothesis “Most people think that banning fox hunting is the right thing to do.” From the start I did not think that this was a true statement, though this was just a gut feeling.

Once I started to gather information I found many mixed feelings about this subject which has been debated since 1949. Fox hunting has already been banned in Scotland and there is a debate at the moment if England should follow our northern counterparts. I will first lay out the why some people think that fox hunting should be banned and why it shouldn’t.

For the Ban

There are many reasons why fox hunting should be banned and some seem to be weaker reason than others. The first and probably the main is that fox hunting I cruel and it is killing of another animal for pleasure. The people who want to ban fox hunting cannot understand how people can enjoy the killing of something for sport. (Many people regard fox hunting as a sport).

One of the other stronger arguments at the moment is in the way the foxes are killed. They are chased down by up to 40 hounds for many hours until it is eventually worn down then the fox is killed by several bites and tears by the hounds. In many cases people think that the fox is torn apart.

In an average fox hunting season 15,000 foxes are killed, 3 people die, 6,000 hounds are killed and up to 1,000 are injured. This seems to be a very strong case to stop fox hunting.

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Against the Ban

In my opinion there is a much stronger case not to ban fox hunting then there is to ban it. Here are some of the main reasons not to ban fox hunting.

In the fox hunting season around 15,000-20,000 are killed and his is only 3% of the total fox population so there is no real impact on the foxes.

The fox has been seen as a pest by many farmers other the centuries and they believe that the fox population needs to be kept down for the amount of livestock foxes ...

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