Late Late Show - Fox hunting debate

doctor evil

This Friday (11th) at 2130 hours

http://www.rte.ie/tv/latelate/

Get texting to get your opinions heard!.

Horses and hunting share a lot in common with other equestrian activities so it fits into this forum (please don`t evict my thread:p).

togster

Oh FFS how many more times are they going to debate this thing on the late late show. I hope they get someone who can string a coherent sentance together on the pro side. Anyway spread the word!!;)

skink

my experience has been the opposite, the anti hunt side is usually filled with lunatics, or incoherent madmen like tom hardiman!

kerrysgold

Brilliant! Maybe all the media coverage lately will start the ball rolling towards a complete ban.....

TheB

kerrysgold wrote: »

Brilliant! Maybe all the media coverage lately will start the ball rolling towards a complete ban.....

If the Irish hunting fraternity don't get their act together this is exactly what will happen.. it happened in the UK.. it'll happen here..

I'll be texting my (pro) thruppence.. the ban was used as a tool there to gain votes.. and has contributed hugely to the downfall of the countryside and widened the Country/City divide more than ever.. there is a lot of bad feeling and wildlife is paying the price..

Bx

kerrysgold

If the Irish hunting fraternity don't get their act together this is exactly what will happen.. it happened in the UK.. it'll happen here..

Hopefully you are right.

togster

kerrysgold wrote: »

Hopefully you are right.

Hopefully you will try and stop provoking a reaction. :rolleyes:

Bendihorse

GROAN... Its impossible to change the opinions of people in cities and towns, the more publicity this gets the worse it will be for hunting in the long run.

Lots of people arn't aware of the extent of hunting in this country or that theres a debate over it. If they are made aware of it, 95% of people would fall on the anti side, just to err on the side of caution.
The general public will feel if animal welfare being called into question, and they dont have the personal experience to make an informed decision, that its safer to presume it is cruel and be anti.

This is bad news, id prefer to keep hunting away from the publie eye and not make a public or political 'issue' of it as such.

togster

+1 Well said.

kerrysgold

I'm just expressing my opinion, and I live in the country too, not a city or town.

KG, you are pretty close to getting an infraction; your comments (whether intentional or not) are provocative and seem solely aimed at getting a rise.

There is no problem with disagreeing with hunting, just back up what you and argue your points. One liners like the ones above are not particulary welcome as then the thread descends into tit-for-tat spat instead of a debate.

This goes for other users too: posts like

Hunting is cruel / hunting is right etc will get this thread locked and will ensure that further threads will be judged in a bad light.

ioshmearse

Deleted User wrote: »

KG, you are pretty close to getting an infraction; your comments (whether intentional or not) are provocative and seem solely aimed at getting a rise.

There is no problem with disagreeing with hunting, just back up what you and argue your points. One liners like the ones above are not particulary welcome as then the thread descends into tit-for-tat spat instead of a debate.

This goes for other users too: posts like

Hunting is cruel / hunting is right etc will get this thread locked and will ensure that further threads will be judged in a bad light.

Would this not be considered a potentially titfortat one liner? Its from the same topic in the shooting>hunting forum.

Deleted User wrote: »

What a farce.

togster

I don't want to back seat mod but zarabra is a mod here not on that forum so your point holds no merit whatsoever. have you anything to add to the topic being discussed?

I would just like to point out that if hunting gets banned here a way of life will die. Many jobs will be lost and people will be unemployed. Also hunting provides a great platform for young horses to develop a sense of courage. It is an attack on peoples liberties and i for one will be trying to vote.
Does anyone know how i could watch it on-line tonight??

fits

The debate has been cancelled, and I'm going to lock this thread. Theres a thread over in the 'hunting' forum which explains why.