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  Fox hunting, shooting birds and mammals, fishing, hare coursing - these are and have been done for centuries by people of all backgrounds and classes for fun, sport and food since time immoriable. There is nothing wrong with it. Dog fighting is not the same and a complete red herring.
  
  I see a lot of ignorant class bigotry said here by people who should know better.
  
  I have never been fox hunting and never want to, shooting either, but I have been hare coursing with my father as a child. He raced greyhounds and would take them for a 'taste of the hare' every now and then. It was fascinating seeing how the hounds worked the hare, with the hares escaping most of the time incidentally. There was nothing 'toff' about hare coursing, it was done by the good old working classes and yes, it was fun. To think that such an innocent country sport should be banned by an interfering nannying government is appalling.
  
  It is pathetic the way so many townies view animals with excessive sentimentality, Disney and Beatrix Potter have a lot to answer for....

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