MADAM,
Further to our MP Mr Edwards's enquiry banning hunting, a red coat will be easy to identify and attack as now.
The thousands of dogs kept by people who work in the week and follow the hunt as part of their leisure or use their dogs to hunt on foot culling rabbits and foxes. Some often using guns.
While there are a few rogues the majority are welcomed into the countryside for the job they do. These people are from all part of UK and have been loyal Labour party supporters. Will there be a secret police to enforce member support?
TB is no respecter of affluence. Our previous letter has uncovered one person, PK Tester, whose head has been buried deep in the sand.
Our day starts very early to get the cows milked and the milk cooled ready for collection. The radio is usually programmed to BBC radio 4 which gives us BBC world service until 5.30 am. Recently we have heard of virulent strains of TB in cities of India and this country completely resistant to most antibiotics. Their overseas programmes and news are much less influenced by pressure groups and tell things as they are.
Always in our mind is the fear that a hungry diseased badger will have visited our cows during the night rubbed noses with them or urinated into their feed some of the methods by which TB is spread.
Our herd started in 1947, and continuously improved, has survived the scourge of BSE. The dread of having it destroyed by TB is always with us.
What would happen if a law was passed by Parliament to stop any cat or dog being killed, allowing them to breed in their natural homes, all householders forced to buy food and give these animals free access to it. Sharing their children's food and bedding regardless of any infectious disease. The badger, and soon foxes, will have more rights than any cat, dog or child.
Far from banning hunting please restore the balance so that all living things in the country can survive but not destroy any other species.
Graham & Christine Long and Family
Troy,
Monmouth