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Cruel it might be Barry, but it's nature. Foxes are part of the food chain and need to eat just as you and I do. Hunting foxes with hounds IS a sport and doesn't keep fox numbers down to the degree required, let's be honest about it. That said, fox hunting was a part of country life for more reasons than simply hunting foxes and, as Andrew says, was urbancentric soft-headed thinking.
I'm against blood sports because I'm an animal lover - and that includes Howard's very valid point about dog fighting. All this points to Labour looking at the countryside through uncomprehending eyes and meddling with something they knew nothing of. That legislation should be repealed asap and employment restored where it's badly needed in the shires; yes, that does mean that foxes are going to be hunted for sport. If that seems contra to my being against blood sports, it is.....but there's a price to pay for all beliefs. I'm no Tory gentry in love with killing foxes, but then I'm not into breeding dogs to rip other dogs' throats out either. To me, the issue of blood sports crosses the class divide, as Howard says; to me, the issue is one of keeping the countryside managed as it always has been and keeping people in jobs. As I say, there's a price to pay for that.