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HUNT SABOTEURS ANGRY OVER INQUIRY AS YOUNG FOX RIPPED APARTSABS joins boycott12 February 2000.
The Southampton based Southern Anti
Bloodsports Society (SABS) today condemned the Burns Inquiry into hunting.
A spokesman said "It will not be unbiased as members of the inquiry team
have links with bloodsports." They are joining a boycott of the
inquiry along with other anti-hunt organisations. The spokesman went on
to say "It is obvious that hunting is cruel and disrupts the lives of
normal country people, but we fear the inquiry will take a different view
given the make up of the panel".
Earlier today, members of SABS were at a meet of the Surrey Union Foxhunt
when a young fox was caught by hounds as it sought refuge in a rabbit
burrow. The fox was retrieved and found to have had its belly ripped
open. The spokesman
for SABS said "There were no marks to
the foxes neck and its internal organs were hanging out. This dispels
the myth that hunting isn't cruel and that foxes are killed by a nip to the
back of the neck. This barbaric activity should be condemned to the
history books".
The incident happened shortly after hunt saboteurs
had been given permission by the land owner to call the hunt off his land, as
the spokesman explained. "A number of local people have been feeding
foxes, and then the hunt trampled across their land and killed an animal that
they cared for. The land owner is investigating taking legal
action"
The announcement comes following a recent incident
in the New Forest when the New Forest Foxhounds killed a young deer. The
SABS spokesman said "The foxhounds obviously breached their licence and
should have been kept off the forest until the season ends in March".
The Forestry Comission, however, only suspended the hunt for one hunting day
before reinstating its licence.
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