Survey reveals major opposition to fox hunting
A novel survey indicates lxxx per centum of the British populace intend flim-flam hunting should non hold upwards made legal again.
The survey results were released on Boxing Day past times the League Against Cruel Sports, the British RSPCA as well as the International Fund for Animal Welfare.
The survey besides shows:
- 85 per centum intend deer hunting should non hold upwards made legal again.
- 87 per centum intend hare hunting/coursing should non hold upwards made legal again.
- Those living inward rural areas did non handgrip unlike views to those living inward urban areas on the number of legalising flim-flam hunting.
Britain’s coalition authorities was clear inward its understanding that it wanted to handgrip a complimentary vote on whether to repeal the Hunting Act.
The RSPCA said the notion of returning to a fourth dimension of cruelty, where hunting animals amongst dogs for sport was legal, was 1 clearly rejected past times the bulk of the British public.
“The fact that lxxx per centum of the populace oppose the provide of this ‘bloodsport’ comes every bit no surprise to me,” said RSPCA primary executive Gavin Grant.
“As a rural dweller I convey ever known that opposition to hunting amongst dogs has never been an number of ‘town versus country’. This poll proves it 1 time as well as for all.
“The message to MPs is loud as well as clear. Hunting wild fauna amongst dogs is unethical, inhumane as well as cruel. The British people volition only non permit a totally unrepresentative elite to re-introduce it.”
The survey was carried out past times Ipsos MORI for the brute welfare charities. It interviewed a example quota sample of 1988 adults inward U.K. aged over 15.
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