Deer

North, Richard D.
The Hunt At Bay; A Paper on Stag-Hunting
October 1999
"Deer hunting involves many of the issues involved in the far more common fox or hare hunting: cruelty to animals, class warfare, traditional pleasures under threat, the conflict between the welfare of individual animals and welfare of whole populations. ... Still, the case that deer hunting is unacceptably cruel is not certain and it is certainly not, finally, a scientific one. This is demonstrated by the inadequacy of the scientific case which opponents of hunting put and the inadequacy of the link between the scientific case and the moral arguments." Commissioned and first published by the Wildlife Network, and reproduced with permission of the author.

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DEER North, Richard D. The Hunt At Bay; A Paper on Stag-Hunting October 1999 "Deer hunting involves many of the issues involved in the far more common fox or hare hunting: cruelty to animals, class warfare, traditional pleasures under threat, the conflict between the welfare of individual animals and welfare of whole populations. ... Still, the case that deer hunting is unacceptably cruel is not certain and it is certainly not, finally, a scientific one. This is demonstrated by the inadequacy of the scientific case which opponents of hunting put and the inadequacy of the link between the scientific case and the moral arguments." Commissioned and first published by the Wildlife Network, and reproduced with permission of the author. Back to Home