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Boxing Day Hunt, Vine and Craven Hunt being promoted by the NWN |
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Dec 28 2016, 02:47 PM
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QUOTE (Andy Capp @ Dec 28 2016, 01:11 PM) I quite agree about recreational hunting, although officially it wasn't a fox hunt, or any other live bait hunt; however, if we are to wish for an impartial press then we shouldn't stand in the way of a reporting of a legal event, even if it is something for which we object.
Equally, until I become a vegan, I find it somewhat hypocritical for me to criticise activities as being cruel or abhorrent, even if I do think they are. I agree that being a drag hunt, they weren't hunting live quarry, but that's what hunts were set up for, and given half a legal chance they would be back to it in an instant. Re the vegan bit, you are not being hypocritical. I don't think you can equate eating humanely-killed meat with tearing inedible wild animals apart.
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Dec 28 2016, 06:34 PM
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QUOTE (JeffG @ Dec 28 2016, 03:47 PM) I agree that being a drag hunt, they weren't hunting live quarry, but that's what hunts were set up for, and given half a legal chance they would be back to it in an instant.
Re the vegan bit, you are not being hypocritical. I don't think you can equate eating humanely-killed meat with tearing inedible wild animals apart. There is very little of the "humane" element in most slaughter houses. Anyone remember the Bernard Mathew's slaughter house where workers used live birds as footballs? That's the real cost of Turkey Twizzlers!
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Dec 28 2016, 08:23 PM
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QUOTE (TallDarkAndHandsome @ Dec 28 2016, 06:21 PM) See old Nigel Farage was out with the hunt on boxing day in his mustard cordrouys. Marvellous man. Oh yes, let's all have a group hug and another excuse to condemn someone doing something perfectly legal. You lost the campaign, get over it.
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Dec 28 2016, 08:53 PM
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QUOTE (x2lls @ Dec 28 2016, 08:23 PM) Oh yes, let's all have a group hug and another excuse to condemn someone doing something perfectly legal. You lost the campaign, get over it. Nothing to do with Brexit. Farage is just an odious man who sucks up to the arch-demon Trump.
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Dec 28 2016, 09:40 PM
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QUOTE (JeffG @ Dec 28 2016, 08:53 PM) Nothing to do with Brexit. Farage is just an odious man who sucks up to the arch-demon Trump. In your opinion. Other people see him as something different. Why is Trump a demon by the way? I personally preferred him to Clinton.
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Dec 29 2016, 12:01 AM
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QUOTE (TallDarkAndHandsome @ Dec 28 2016, 09:40 PM) Why is Trump a demon by the way? Because the Daily Mail Editor-in-Chief says so.... or was it the Guardian editor... I forget... but the followers of those versions of the printed press will regurgitate it nonetheless
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Dec 29 2016, 09:31 AM
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QUOTE (spartacus @ Dec 29 2016, 12:01 AM) Because the Daily Mail Editor-in-Chief says so.... or was it the Guardian editor... I forget... but the followers of those versions of the printed press will regurgitate it nonetheless Bollocks! I don't read either of those newspapers or any newspaper in fact. I have seen the man in action and formed my own opinion (yes, some of us are capable of doing that, you might be surprised to hear). Oh, and I don't eat halal or kosher meat (or veal for that matter) so your emotive juxtaposition is irrelevant to what I said.
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Dec 29 2016, 09:34 AM
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QUOTE (Strafin @ Dec 27 2016, 08:20 PM) http://www.newburytoday.co.uk/news/home/20...n-lambourn.htmlI don't come on much anymore as I don't live close, but I try and keep up to date with my hometown. I am also vehemently against fox hunting and gave been looking into which groups drag hunt, which ones pretend and which ones advocate fox hunting. Woth support at an all time low, I was surprised to see that the NWN is promoting the hunt and the pictures as some sort of community event, and will be running a "feature" on it in the next copy of the paper very dissapointing. Yep, another main reason why I don't buy it any more. Someone raised the issue of halal. Another abhorrent practice in the name of religion which should also not be tolerated in this, which I believe, is still a non-muslim country? Mistreating animals for "sport" and or religious reasons is abhorrent. (There, I used the word twice!)
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Dec 29 2016, 09:49 AM
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QUOTE (JeffG @ Dec 29 2016, 10:31 AM) Bollocks! I don't read either of those newspapers or any newspaper in fact. I have seen the man in action and formed my own opinion (yes, some of us are capable of doing that, you might be surprised to hear).
Oh, and I don't eat halal or kosher meat (or veal for that matter) so your emotive juxtaposition is irrelevant to what I said. That you know of, done any farm to table investigation lately? A surprising number of halal slaughter houses supply meat to the trade now.
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Dec 29 2016, 10:28 AM
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QUOTE (JeffG @ Dec 28 2016, 02:47 PM) Re: the vegan bit, you are not being hypocritical. I don't think you can equate eating humanely-killed meat with tearing inedible wild animals apart. I wasn't equating anything. Given a choice, I'd rather be a fox than a cow or a lamb.
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Dec 29 2016, 05:12 PM
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I think we all condemn religious slaughter, i.e halal and kosher. Regarding halal meat getting into the food chain, I believe there was an outcry when it was discovered some supermarkets were selling halal meat not labelled as such. I just checked and it seems that all Sainsbury's halal and kosher products are labelled. New Zealand lamb at other supermarkets is halal and unlabelled as such. I think you'd be safe eating pork
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Dec 29 2016, 05:26 PM
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QUOTE (JeffG @ Dec 29 2016, 05:12 PM) I think we all condemn religious slaughter, i.e halal and kosher. Regarding halal meat getting into the food chain, I believe there was an outcry when it was discovered some supermarkets were selling halal meat not labelled as such. I just checked and it seems that all Sainsbury's halal and kosher products are labelled. New Zealand lamb at other supermarkets is halal and unlabelled as such. I think you'd be safe eating pork Thanks for that info. I have occasionally purchased new zealand lamb from tesco when no GB lamb was available. I won't again.
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Dec 29 2016, 05:47 PM
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QUOTE (JeffG @ Dec 29 2016, 06:12 PM) I think we all condemn religious slaughter, i.e halal and kosher. Regarding halal meat getting into the food chain, I believe there was an outcry when it was discovered some supermarkets were selling halal meat not labelled as such. I just checked and it seems that all Sainsbury's halal and kosher products are labelled. New Zealand lamb at other supermarkets is halal and unlabelled as such. I think you'd be safe eating pork Thanks, good input.
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