.... waste recycling centre? Bit harsh....Jesus wept ..... I’ve just read through this thread. Everyone here is a farmer and a countryman right ? How the hell can do many have so little understanding of the country world and ways around you...... I suppose it’s because being a farmer doesn’t automatically make you a countryman. Happy to attack others amongst us, whilst hoping no one attacks us, and complain when they do ?
I spend a lot of time with hounds, have a lot of friends in hunt service..... and farm surrounding a hunt kennels with both a pack of fox hounds and beagles at which my good friend is kennel huntsman. He spends every day with those hounds, knows them far better than we do our stock and gives them the very best care he can, right to the end.
Ive not watched the video and I’m not saying the lad in it should have let himself be filmed and I’m not saying he went about it right, as within anything there are good, and bad, better and worse. We’ve alll seen the videos of some pig farms, dairy units etc and thought they should hang their head in shame and yet we don’t condemn the industry.
Not all are huntsmen who blow the huntsman horn.
But I find it deeply saddening that so many farmers seem to have no understanding or support for the hunt in any way shape or form. And yet at the same time feel deeply saddened that in many parts of the country the hunt is now a pantomime followed by fools on horse back who like a jump or two.
Hopefully it will never die, our country would be a far sadder place if it did. Remember, tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire......
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