Sir,
It seems odd to me that there has been a clearly coordinated and indignant response to the news that the South Pembrokeshire Hunt will once again be meeting in Tenby.
In 2005, the Labour Government devoted 700 hours to the banning of hunting, leaving hunts to pursue what animal rights groups had long advocated as an alternative to foxes, namely a false trail.
This we were told would maintain the pageantry, history and spectacle, but without any alleged cruelty.
Why then are the animal rights groups now so appalled by the ideas of the new sanitised cruelty-free version of hunting returning to Tenby?
There can only be two explanations. One, that their hatred was more to do with 'toffs on horses' than it was the plight of a few foxes, or two, that they believe the hunt to be carrying on as if nothing had happened.
It is time anti-hunt protesters were brave enough to come clean and tell us which it is - although I am not holding my breath.
S. E. Meyrick,
Great Wedlock,
Gumfreston.
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