As the government publishes its new animal welfare strategy, Sean O’Grady looks at the controversial decision to outlaw a practice that has been allowed to continue since foxhunting was banned in 2004
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As the government publishes its new animal welfare strategy, Sean O’Grady looks at the controversial decision to outlaw a practice that has been allowed to continue since foxhunting was banned in 2004
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Fears the practice is being used as cover for chasing live foxes
Parliament-based campaigners to set out ‘gold-standard’ reforms including banning trail-hunting
Our community has largely backed a ban on trail hunting, calling it foxhunting by another name, while a minority warned it would…
Rogue hunts have been shut down by the governing body, and the rural community faces much more serious problems
The animal welfare strategy also plans to tighten protections aimed at stopping cruel breeding practices such as puppy farming
Strategy lays out new steps towards banning fur imports, and phasing out farm cages and carbon dioxide chambers to kill pigs
