AR-News: (UK) The wrong fox - Animal welfare knows worse scandals

[Animalconcerns]

One of the most hypocritical Bills of modern times returns to Parliament
this week when the House of Lords debates the latest proposal to outlaw
hunting with dogs. This is the fourth attempt to ban hunting and more than
a hundred hours of parliamentary time have been spent on this Bill alone.
For anti-hunt campaigners, it is the best hope to date for a ban.

However, those genuinely concerned about cruelty to animals should not
celebrate yet, for the Bill is little more than a sop to an old Labour
shibboleth. If animal welfare were truly the aim of the Bill, the
Government would be addressing the far worse (yet legal) abuse of millions
of birds and animals on UK farms.

Compare these figures. Each year, hunting with dogs kills 75,000 foxes,
more than 1,500 hares, 1,000 mink and 150-200 deer. It seems a lot. But
the figures are dwarfed by the hundreds of millions of farm birds and
animals cramped wretchedly into cages and bred to grow so fast that their
limbs break and vital organs fail. 

full story:
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/homeaffairs/comment/0,11026,1066302,00.html

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