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Rob R

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: York

Posted: Fri Mar 13, 15 4:12 pm Post subject: We may need to shut this section of the site down...

The Green Party says NO

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Instead of proposing yet more cruelty to animals, why will she not look at extending the Act to grouse shooting and hare coursing, which also are cruel and hugely opposed in this country?

That would be the Hunting Act 2004, the one that banned hare coursing, no?

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 46210
Location: yes

Posted: Fri Mar 13, 15 5:26 pm Post subject:
i recon it would be

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
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Location: yes

Posted: Fri Mar 13, 15 5:32 pm Post subject:
Hare coursing and grouse shooting using dogs is already restricted in the United Kingdom. im not giving either hound a gun

Tavascarow

Joined: 06 Aug 2006
Posts: 8407
Location: South Cornwall

Posted: Fri Mar 13, 15 5:39 pm Post subject:
Buggered both ways. If we don't support the Greens there will be nothing left alive worth shooting bar rats & cockroaches.

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 46210
Location: yes

Posted: Fri Mar 13, 15 5:51 pm Post subject:
i recon an rpg is minimum firepower for roaches

Rob R

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 31902
Location: York

Posted: Fri Mar 13, 15 5:53 pm Post subject:

Tavascarow wrote:

If we don't support the Greens there will be nothing left alive worth shooting bar rats & cockroaches.

Rubbish. I'm not sitting around waiting for someone who has no idea to come to power. (And neither are my neighbours who do shoot).

oldish chris

Joined: 14 Jun 2006
Posts: 4148
Location: Comfortably Wet Southport

Posted: Fri Mar 13, 15 6:09 pm Post subject:

are we not in danger of confusing hunting for fun, hunting for food and controlling vermin?

Hunting for fun, e.g. my local Waterloo Cup for hare coursing is an object lesson in cultivating unnecessary suffering. All decent farmers make meat harvesting as painfree and sanitised as possible, I take my hat off to them.

Pheasant and grouse are, in my opinion, are a borderline between the two approaches, kept as grey as possible by the Waterloo Cup brigade. Having witnessed a shoot on the land adjacent to my allotment they are a bunch noisy ignorant crap shots out for fun.

Pheasants are so thick that trapping and dispatching them for the pot is simplicity itself. I think its called "poaching".

IMHO

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 46210
Location: yes

Posted: Fri Mar 13, 15 6:17 pm Post subject:
or sous vide for posh

vegplot

Joined: 19 Apr 2007
Posts: 21301
Location: Bethesda, Gwynedd

Posted: Fri Mar 13, 15 6:20 pm Post subject:

Those who think field sports is the preserve of the wealthy have a very narrow view and limited understanding of the sport.

Conversation relies, in part, on the activities of field sports which not only help enrichen biological diversity but also provide valuable revenues for many rural enterprises. By taking an emotional and onesided look at the whole debate serves no real purpose but I expect many who take a vitriolic stance against any form of field sport care not a jot about anything else except their own opinion.

Rob R

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 31902
Location: York

Posted: Fri Mar 13, 15 6:21 pm Post subject:

It is a grey area, I don't see what's 'fun' about shooting, but neither do I about golf, but the former creates a more 'natural' habitat and the latter could be said to both protect and destroy it, as with any development. I'm sure ignorant, noisy people exist in both 'sports', as do quiet, knowledgeable types.

I don't think removing the fun element of shooting is ever going to work though. You can ban an action, but it's difficult to ban emotions.

Falstaff

Joined: 27 May 2009
Posts: 1014

Posted: Fri Mar 13, 15 8:17 pm Post subject:
Bloody nutters ! Good job they haven't a hope in hell of getting anywhere seat wise !

Ty Gwyn

Joined: 22 Sep 2010
Posts: 4613
Location: Lampeter

Posted: Fri Mar 13, 15 8:35 pm Post subject:
Bloody Nutters is rather overboard, More misinformed and out of touch with the countryside i would place it, And that`s the worrying part.

Behemoth

Joined: 01 Dec 2004
Posts: 19023
Location: Leeds

Posted: Fri Mar 13, 15 10:01 pm Post subject:

I've alwAys found this a bit puzzling. People love to shoot thing and derive great pleasure from it. Even shooting each other. Very little of it involves maintains the countryside. Most is done digitally on sofas, Somw with paint balls. If you care so much about the countryside you would maintain it anyway or have to conclude that it's merely a byproduct of your fun shooting stuff not the main driver and it's the shooting you really like and if it was banned tomorrow you'd walk away and not give a stuff about biodiversity etc or wail that somebody somewhere must do something. For the record I've no issue with shooting game.

vegplot

Joined: 19 Apr 2007
Posts: 21301
Location: Bethesda, Gwynedd

Posted: Fri Mar 13, 15 10:08 pm Post subject:

Behemoth wrote:

That's describes a very small group of shooters. Shooting in the country has everything to do with conservation/biodiversity as without it it has no future. I don't shoot animals as it doesn't interest me but I am a member of BASC whose web site is a wealth of information on this subject.

oldish chris

Joined: 14 Jun 2006
Posts: 4148
Location: Comfortably Wet Southport

Posted: Fri Mar 13, 15 10:21 pm Post subject:

vegplot wrote:

OK! Add to "wealthy", nouveau riche, or anybody who isn't an actual creative type who has a cue about ecology. So, with 1,000s of acres of uplands, massive potential for productivity, or simply to create fresh air and water, some of us refer to charge over it in RangeRovers, run around in Barbour Jackets and shoot everything that moves. Gosh, that's delayed climate change by a 100 years!!!

Hey Nick, I've found where I'd left my chip - Its back in place.

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