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 Home > News and alerts > You are here: British sportsmen will march to defend traditional lifestyle British sportsmen will march to defend traditional lifestyle (8/26/2002) Sportsmen in England, who are facing a ban on hunting with
hounds, will march on London to make the point that a hunting ban will
have a negative impact on animal welfare and rural people. The Countryside Alliance, a London-based group that promotes the interests of rural citizenry, field sports, wildlife management, and an array of countryside concerns, will take part in the Liberty and Livelihood March on September 22, 2002. Over 250,000 people attended a similar event in 1998. Organizers will demand that the government safeguard rural
people from attacks on hunting with dogs and other field sports, and
generally defend the rights and customs of the rural people in the
country. “We want members of the public to realize how important hunting is to rural communities and how much the rural economy would be hit by making us into criminals,” said James Barclay from the South Wold Hunt. A recent study also showed that a ban on fox hunting could actually hurt animal populations as alternative methods of controlling predators include poisoning and other practices known to be harmful to many non-target species. Despite these findings, animal rights groups have succeeded in banning fox hunting in Scotland and are nearly successful in England. The Liberty and Livelihood March is expected to be Europe’s largest civil rights demonstration ever and will likely attract hundreds of thousands of people from all over the world. CopyrightÓ U.S. Sportsmen's Alliance- www.ussportsmen.org
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