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ban all hunting with hounds in England.
The British ban was passed Thursday when members of the elected House of Commons overruled the opposition of the appointed House of Lords.
While the ban does not prohibit the shooting of foxes, it does bar all hunting with hounds, including the pursuit of rabbits and deer. It is scheduled to take effect in February.
The debate over whether to outlaw a popular country sport that opponents view as animal cruelty has divided the European nation for at least a decade.
Leading the pack is the highly visible, centuries-old tradition of hunting fox with a pack of specially bred foxhounds, with followers in pursuit on horseback. Quintessentially British, the sport of foxhunting — indeed the Thoroughbred sport horses, highly bred hounds and even the foxes themselves — rode along with the first settlers to the new American colony in the 1600s. Northern Virginia is still renowned worldwide as America’s primary “Hunt Country.”
Tb push through the legislation, anti-hunt, Labour Party MPs in Commons overrode dissent from Lords with the rarely used Parliament Act. This was only the fourth time the Act has been invoked since passed in its current form in 1949.
Ostensibly, the force behind banning all hunting with hounds in England is animal rights and animal protection; however, many in the pro-hunting group called Countryside Alliance feel that the fight was purely good old-fashioned class warfare. The CA was formed
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