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Interesting article about the fox hunt, how it continues in a modified form and how rural life has changed in England. We saw a hunt the other day when driving home from Bath.
The Guardian, The foxhunting ban 10 years on: has the countryside changed for ever? by Stephen Moss 22 November 2014
It was one of New Labour’s defining policies – but a decade after the hunting ban came in, enthusiasts still ride out across the country. So did the law change things? Can the pursuit survive? And what’s it like chasing fox urine?
From the article: “The people who hunt now are different,” Stevens adds. “It used to be farmers’ sons and daughters who came hunting. Well, there aren’t any now. The farms are much bigger and they’re all mechanically minded – they sit on tractors.”
The Guardian, The foxhunting ban 10 years on: has the countryside changed for ever? by Stephen Moss 22 November 2014
It was one of New Labour’s defining policies – but a decade after the hunting ban came in, enthusiasts still ride out across the country. So did the law change things? Can the pursuit survive? And what’s it like chasing fox urine?
From the article: “The people who hunt now are different,” Stevens adds. “It used to be farmers’ sons and daughters who came hunting. Well, there aren’t any now. The farms are much bigger and they’re all mechanically minded – they sit on tractors.”