The arguments below focus upon blood sports, which involve hunting with dogs and include fox-hunting, hare coursing and stag hunting, but many are also applicable to hunting in general
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Any morally justifiable means of controlling animal populations needs to pass the tests of necessity, effectiveness, and humaneness. It is on these three issues that the two sides of the hunting debate clash, each claiming that their preferred method of culling best fits these criteria. A vast amount of scientific data and research is being collated in order to back up the respective positions. Here, I have tried to steer away from empirical data and to concentrate instead on the broader arguments for and against; in a real-life debate being able to marshal facts and figures will also be necessary. However, there is a fundamental philosophical difference between the two sides in their view of the relationship between man and animals. The arguments below focus upon blood sports, which involve hunting with dogs and include fox-hunting, hare coursing and stag hunting, but many are also applicable to hunting in general. ...


