February 2003 News and Media Hunting Bills

Dennis Roddy. The Pittsburgh columnist ridicules the British attempt to outlaw foxhunting based on their Robespierre certitude that pleasure must have a point, and nothing to do with compassion for foxes. He objects to legislation by people who consider e

• Guardian: The last chase? - Helen Carter. Coverage of the competitions between greyhounds 2003 and hares, and coursing supporters and protesters. Most 2003 hares and all protesters emerged unscathed at the 2003 end of the day.
• Telegraph: Gamekeepers facing terrier ban - Charles Clover, environment editor. MPs voted to ban the use 2003 of terriers by gamekeepers to flush foxes to guns or 2003 to kill them underground, putting the future of game shooting 2003 in doubt.
• Telegraph: Hounds may be the only way to deal with mink - Charles Clover, environment editor. A study conducted last 2003 autumn in news and media the Outer Hebrides, submitted by Alun 2003 Michael the rural affairs news and media minister, argues that there 2003 is a strong case for allowing news and media mink hunting 2003 to continue as a form of pest control.
• Telegraph: Hunting Bill's 'utility' test threatens sheepdog trials, say farmers - Charles Clover, environment editor. Since sheep dog trials risk putting news and media up hares or foxes, they are now in danger of news and media failing the Government\\'s test of "utility" because they are unnecessary. news and media Field trials for gun dogs have already been caught by news and media t
• Post-Gazette: Hooray for smoking, drinking and fox hunting - Dennis Roddy. The Pittsburgh columnist ridicules the British 2003 attempt to 2003 outlaw foxhunting based on their Robespierre 2003 certitude that pleasure must 2003 have a point, and 2003 nothing to do with compassion for 2003 foxes. He 2003 objects to legislation by people who consider e
• Sunday Telegraph: Anglers are finally off the hook: fish feel no pain - Rajeev Syal. A report by James D. Rose news and media in the American academic journal Reviews of Fisheries news and media Science concludes that awareness of pain depends on news and media functions of regions of the cerebral cortex which news and media fish do not possess, contrary to the claims news and media of animal rights
• Western Mail: Hunting ban `is a rural disaster' - The year-old ban on fox hunting in Scotland has cost jobs, lost tourism business, has become a legal minefield for farmers, and has adversely affected fox welfare. Before the law, the fit fox more often than not always got away and it was the infirm or ol
• icLiverpool: Face to face in hate at Altcar - David Charters, Daily Post. Long article about the 2003 Waterloo Cup, news and media coursing\\'s major event. Joining enthusiasts and 2003 hunt saboteurs alike, he news and media sees no possibility of 2003 the differences between these two groups news and media ever being 2003 reconciled except perhaps by the ECHR.
• Daily Post: MPs back new bid to ban hunting - Tariq Tahir And Hugo Duncan. North Wales Labour february MPs are february backing a fresh bid for a february total ban on fox-hunting. february All but one is february understood to support the ban - february putting them february on a collision course with the powerful regional february february hunting lobby.
• Telegraph: Cruelty scientist ridicules Labour's case for hunt ban - Benedict Brogan, political correspondent. Labour\\'s claim of "incontrovertible 2003 evidence of cruelty" for deer hunting has been 2003 branded "scientifically illiterate" by Professor Patrick Bateson, the 2003 Cambridge academic who did the research
• Guardian: Anti-hunting MPs give bill new teeth - Anne Perkins, political correspondent. The committee stage has 2003 ended after making significant changes to the bill, 2003 and now Commons is expected to change it 2003 to outlaw hunting completely.
• Sunday Telegraph: Into battle at dawn with the Real CA - Daniel Foggo. Profile of Edward Duke, leader of the pro-hunting february group known as the Real CA and responsible for their february most recent demonstration at the Angel of the North.
• Mirror: Hare coursing come to a bloody end - Jan Disley. Coverage of the traditional baiting sport 2003 of coursing protesters and supporters.
• Telegraph: MPs vote to outlaw hare hunting - Charles Clover, environment editor. In a vote which news and media led to allegations that the Government had "lost news and media control", Alun Michael, the rural affairs minister, declined news and media to vote in defence of his Bill. Peter news and media Bradley, his parliamentary private secretary,
• Telegraph: Hunting Bill 'threatens the sport of shooting' - Charles Clover, environment editor. Shooting and gamekeeping bodies and pro-shooting news and media MPs warned that if Michael Foster\\'s amendments are passed they news and media would represent a breach of the Government\\'s manifesto commitment to news and media protect shooting and fishing.
• BBC News: Pro-hunters in Angel rallying call - A huge banner is draped over the Angel 2003 of the february North by pro-hunting campaigners representing the 2003 Real CA. Photo.

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