Steven Mace
05-09-2002, 09:00 PM
Animal rights groups: we want to ban shooting
By Wesley Stanton
09/05/2002
It comes as no surprise – now that the centuries-old tradition of fox-hunting looks set to end, the League Against Cruel Sports (LACS) is preparing to formalise its hatred of shooting sports by rewriting its constitution to include opposition to shooting. And while LACS’ opposition was not entirely unexpected, a separate move by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) has seen the society ask the Government for new controls on the rearing of game birds – clearly a front for the organisation’s covert intention to stop the shooting of game birds.
Both these organisations has been relatively silent about their feelings about shooting for near certain fear that their feelings about shooting might prejudice their campaign against fox-hunting – but now, clearly, they feel that hunting is all but ended and they are preparing to divert their attentions into some other area.
LACS will be seeking a reworking of its constitution that will need to be decided by the AGM in London this June. Instead of LACS opposing "the cruelty involved in field and other sports", the new wording proposed reads to "…oppose and prevent cruelty to animals and, in particular, the cruelty of hunting, coursing and shooting of wild animals".
As part of the RSPCA’s submission to Government on the review of animal welfare laws, the RSPCA is calling for “cruel practices involved in the rearing of game birds” to be outlawed. But in an earlier draft of the charity’s submission called for a “a new offence to be created to prohibit sports shooting of game birds". So did the RSPCA change its mind? Perhaps it did – because the draft submission is completely at odds with subsequent comments from an RSPCA spokesperson who said that the society is not calling for a ban on game shooting but wishes to see more humane conditions for the rearing of birds.
So what do we believe the truth to be? Perhaps the RSPCA dropped the banning of game shooting from its draft submission because it knew it would stand zero chance of ending up on the statute books in the short-term and would set out the RSPCA`s stall as enemies of all countryside and shooting organisations.
Take note that the RSPCA`s hidden agenda is to ban shooting. Unequivocal.
http://www.leadshot.com/story.asp?id=552
Steve Mace
By Wesley Stanton
09/05/2002
It comes as no surprise – now that the centuries-old tradition of fox-hunting looks set to end, the League Against Cruel Sports (LACS) is preparing to formalise its hatred of shooting sports by rewriting its constitution to include opposition to shooting. And while LACS’ opposition was not entirely unexpected, a separate move by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) has seen the society ask the Government for new controls on the rearing of game birds – clearly a front for the organisation’s covert intention to stop the shooting of game birds.
Both these organisations has been relatively silent about their feelings about shooting for near certain fear that their feelings about shooting might prejudice their campaign against fox-hunting – but now, clearly, they feel that hunting is all but ended and they are preparing to divert their attentions into some other area.
LACS will be seeking a reworking of its constitution that will need to be decided by the AGM in London this June. Instead of LACS opposing "the cruelty involved in field and other sports", the new wording proposed reads to "…oppose and prevent cruelty to animals and, in particular, the cruelty of hunting, coursing and shooting of wild animals".
As part of the RSPCA’s submission to Government on the review of animal welfare laws, the RSPCA is calling for “cruel practices involved in the rearing of game birds” to be outlawed. But in an earlier draft of the charity’s submission called for a “a new offence to be created to prohibit sports shooting of game birds". So did the RSPCA change its mind? Perhaps it did – because the draft submission is completely at odds with subsequent comments from an RSPCA spokesperson who said that the society is not calling for a ban on game shooting but wishes to see more humane conditions for the rearing of birds.
So what do we believe the truth to be? Perhaps the RSPCA dropped the banning of game shooting from its draft submission because it knew it would stand zero chance of ending up on the statute books in the short-term and would set out the RSPCA`s stall as enemies of all countryside and shooting organisations.
Take note that the RSPCA`s hidden agenda is to ban shooting. Unequivocal.
http://www.leadshot.com/story.asp?id=552
Steve Mace