England: Recreational hunter rides down hunt opponent
In England, a recreational hunter rode down a hunt opponent with his horse. The activist was knocked to the ground; police are investigating.
This incident could have ended fatally. In England, two activists want to confront a recreational hunter. He jumps with his horse over a gate, directly towards one of the two women!
Police investigate incident involving horse
The members of the Hertfordshire Hunt Saboteurs are levelling serious accusations at the rider: he had jumped over the gate “recklessly.” The Cottesmore Hunt hunting society, however, sees the situation differently: “She deliberately moves into the path of the jumping horse.”
Traditional recreational hunting under scrutiny in England
Traditional hunting has come under criticism in England for some time. Activist groups are calling for an end to the tradition and accusing the recreational hunters of animal cruelty. Critics argue that even in drag hunting, wild animals are repeatedly shot. More on the topic of crime and hunting.
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More on the subject of recreational hunting: In our dossiers on the criticism of recreational hunting gather fact-checks, analyses and background reports. What the research says about this is shown by Hunting fact-checked: the state of research.
The position of IG Wild beim Wild: IG Wild beim Wild rejects recreational hunting. Our model is the canton of Geneva, which has managed without recreational hunting since 1974: without hunting seasons, without hunting dogs, without driven hunts, without high seats, without the animal cruelty and crime that go hand in hand with hunting season elsewhere. What has worked there for over fifty years disproves every position paper by JagdSchweiz. An association that bases its policy on claims it refutes in its own documents is not a professional organisation, but a factory for misinformation.
