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 kill.
Fox hunting is said to provide 16,000 from the smithy shoeing of the horses to the houndsmen who care for the dogs. Though anti-foxhunters say only 1,000 jobs would be lost if banned.
Survey Results
For my own research I have made survey on fox hunting to see whether the people I ask think that fox hunting should be banned. These are the results of my survey. I have shown the question and the possible opinions so you can see who has the majority and the minority.
As you can see from my results they seem quite mixed. The majority of females which I used survey on said that there should be ban on fox hunting because they think the foxes are killed in a cruel why, the dogs can be injured and that they do not like hunting for sport. The majority also said that fox hunting should not continue even if there is a threat to farmer’s livestock. It seems to me that more women want a ban on fox hunting then woman that do not.
The answers that I received form the males however are very different. 7/10 believes that fox hunting should not be banned and 9/10 thinks that it can be justified. This shows me that there is a strong case with men, which they tend to not support the ban on fox hunting. They may not like everything that happens in foxing so maybe they would vote for a part ban on fox hunting. The case with woman that most tend to support the ban, form the survey I have made. But all together with the men and the women results added to together they do not support the ban.
My information is only out of 20 people so it can not be trusted as much as a large poll. I have researched and found lager polls take nationwide.
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These polls were found on .
- MORI interviewed 801 adults aged 18+ across Great Britain.
- Interviews were conducted by telephone on 14-15 July 1999.
- All data are weighted to the known profile of Great Britain.
- Where results do not sum to 100, this may be due to multiple responses, or the exclusion of don't knows/not stated.
To what extent do you support or oppose a ban on hunting with dogs in Britain?
If the MPs vote to ban hunting, would you support or oppose the government moving ahead - irrespective of the Lords' vote - to bring in a ban on hunting this year?
On balance, do you personally support Tony Blair in wishing to ban hunting, or do you support Prince Charles in continuing to take part in it - or do you not feel strongly about the issue one way or the other?
Conclusion
From the information which I have gathered and research from various sources I have come to the conclusion that most people think that the ban in necessary. My survey which I have done has a very, very small amount of data. This is because my survey was results were all from the same area and that I only asked 20 people. The polls which I found on the internet contained much a much higher amount of people and the poll was nationwide instead of one local area.
Though my own survey found that the majority of people (an equal amount of male and female) thought that there should not be fox hunting ban, the nationwide results tell me something different. They suggest that the majority of people (un-known if there is the same amount of males and females) thought there should be a ban on fox hunting. This was unexpected after analysing my own survey.
I made sure that there was an equal amount of men and women in my survey because I believe that women have a more caring view towards fox hunting then men might do. If there was a larger amount of women in the nationwide survey this may be the reason for the difference in my results and there results.