Teaching controversial issues
Hunting with hounds
Updated:
Jan 2005
This resource provides information and arguments around the current debate about
hunting
Use the links on the right to navigate these pages.
Resources
Parliamentary documents >>
Campaigning organisations >>
Other resources >>
Parliamentary documents
Hunting
bill and explanatory notes
(as introduced in the House of Commons on 3rd December 2002)
Defra
foxhunting page
(all dates referred to are for the year 2002)
Hunting page of the government’s Department for the Environment and Rural Affairs.
Burns
Inquiry (Hunting Inquiry chaired by Lord Burns)
Includes all submitted evidence.
Burns
Inquiry Report
Web-based downloadable file – may take a few minutes and will open in
Acrobat Reader (usually within your web broswer). Also available as web pages on the Inquiry site.
Hansard
Hansard is the official daily verbatim report of debates in parliament.
Campaigning organisations
International
Fund for Animal Welfare
Reports and Fact Sheets on hunting with dogs and other forms of hunting from
an anti-hunting perspective.
Master of Foxhounds Association (MFHA)
Other resources
A
short history of the fox hunt
Guardian timeline beginning in AD45, identifying significant dates in the
history of hunting.
BBC
Special Report: ‘Hunting with Dogs’
Extensive section examining the arguments for and against, background
to the issue and how hunting operates in the UK and in other countries around
the world.
Countryside
Alliance frequently asked questions
Response to the Hunting Bill (now the Hunting Act) and answers to frequently
asked questions, form a pro-hunting viewpoint.
Good
Hunting Code of Practice
A Code of practice on hunting with hounds, from the pro hunting group
Masters of Foxhounds Association.
Guardian Special Report: ‘Hunting’
Guardian
guide to hunt locations
A guide to where in the UK hunts are occurring fox hunts stag hunts and harrier
and beagle hunts.
'How
a Bill works' (BBC Parliament)
Details from the BBC on the stages that a Bill must go through to become an
act of law.
League
Against Cruel Sports: Arguments against
A list of responses against the claims often made by those who are
pro-hunting.
Mori
polls
Public opinion polls on the issue of hunting.
The
Parliament Act: Questions and Answers
Details of the Act that was used to force through legislation banning
hunting with hounds.
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