Fox Hunting: Good or Bad

People who support fox hunting believe that it is a sport and a way of preventing foxes from overrunning the countryside. Many of the people who support fox hunting are farmers and they believe that foxes are pests that ought to be hunted because they carry all sorts of nasty diseases that could be dangerous and perhaps even fatal to humans and other animals. Foxes eat farmer's chickens, other livestock, and their crops and therefore they believe that they have a right to kill the fox. Those who take part in it and enjoy it believe that they should be able to carry it on.

However there are people who believe fox hunting is an evil cruel barbaric pastime, which farmers those who take part in it call a sport. The people who think fox hunting is evil believe that is cruel to kill a poor innocent creature that is only trying to find food to feed its family. Foxes are lovely, calm, quiet creatures that always run as soon as they see humans, so this must show that they are definitely more frightened of us than we are of them. During a hunt the poor foxes are chased out of their homes even when they are only cubs and sometimes their parents and family are killed. This must be a horrible experience for them. Animals have their own rights and feelings as well as humans. We do not kill humans if they kill or eat a farmer's chicken or lambs so why should it be different for foxes. Foxes have a natural animal instinct that's drives them to kill and to eat chickens and they should not be put through this kind of cruelty just for following their natural instinct. Foxes often kill other small animals like rabbits, which can be a pest to farmers so therefore foxes do help farmers in some way and they should be protected from the cruelty of hunters for this reason.

In conclusion there are still many arguments for and against fox hunting and the current ban on fox hunting has done little to solve the arguments. I do not think the arguments for and against fox hunting will disappear because it is a very controversial issue which many people feel strongly about and are prepared to continue to argue. Those people who work and take part in fox hunting see it as a way of life and think that they have a right to carry it on because it is an old English tradition which is practiced in all parts of Europe. People who are against fox hunting will always see it as a cruel way to treat animals. I myself would like to see it banned.