Hunting community to take legal action to become protected minority group
www.telegraph.co.uk
There have good chance of obtaining same status as Gypsies and LGBT people, campaigners say
    • The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.netEnglish
      65·
      3 months ago

      They want protection from criticism. British hunting practices are… Horrific. Other countries have eliminated killing the fox as part of the event. Most of the world has shifted to you just ride around a field with some dogs and maybe you see the same fox you see every Thursday at 4pm and you go on the exact same chase with it you always do. In the UK? They murder that fox, and not humanely. By marking their “traditions” as ethnically derived, they become able to say criticizing them is a hate crime. Its… Really fucking stupid

      • Bananakabooom@lemmy.worldEnglish
        27·
        3 months ago

        killing the fox with your hounds is illegal in the UK from around 2005, as well it should be. I expect this law is broken as much as any other. I also assume that getting protected status is their starting point in attempting to get that law removed from the books.

      • Droggelbecher@lemmy.worldEnglish
        15·
        3 months ago

        Not that whatever the British hunters do isn’t worse. But putting the same animal through that tremendous stress just for the fun of it isn’t exactly what I’d describe as humane either.