Recent tosh from LACS and Animal Aid

[The Sporting Agent 0]

These are extracts from LACS and AA's current campaign pages.......they need to find better things to do me thinks!

 

Ask Ebay to Ban Fox Hunting DVDs - ANIMAL AID

Ebay – the online shop and auction site – has been stocking DVDs that promote and celebrate hunting with hounds, coursing and lamping. Although most of the sellers list their item as ‘educational’ and state that the DVDs do not promote illegal activity, some of the descriptions boast ‘this dvd is a hunters must have dvd’ and this DVD ‘WILL HELP YOU GET MORE KILLS’.

 

Selling DVDs that depict real-life animal cruelty and illegal activity should not be classed as educational and should not be sold via ebay. Worryingly, most are listed under the heading of Nature/Wildlife; a category many genuine nature lovers would browse.

 

Please search Ebay with the phrase ‘fox hunting’ and then report the specific items to Ebay, stating that you are worried those items break their rules on ‘Encouraging Illegal Activity’.

 

Ask Boots to Stop Playing Silly Games! - ANIMAL AID

Boots are selling an interactive DVD game called John Francombe's Day at the Races, which promotes horse racing and betting. Ex National Hunt jockey and racing commentator, Francombe, offers tips and advice throughout to help you win as much imaginary money as possible. Promoting the idea that horse racing and gambling are harmless activities is unacceptable. Animal Aid's research shows that around 375 horses are raced to death every year and that many thousands more are slaughtered in UK abattoirs because they are considered 'useless'.

 

Please write to Boots via the internet form and ask them politely to stop stocking this distasteful game.

 

Insects have right to life - ANIMAL AID

A new children's fortnightly magazine called 'Real-life bugs and insects', is offering a different dead insect set in a resin cube, free with every issue. The insects are farmed and killed especially for this series. There is evidence that insects can experience pain and suffering, but even if there isn't, we should at least give them the benefit of the doubt. Insects deserve as much respect and right to life as any other species in the animal kingdom and should be free from unnecessary cruelty. Farming and killing insects so that they can be set in a display box and given away free on a magazine, is certainly an unnecessary way to treat animals described by the magazine as 'amazing, exceptional and spectacular'.

 

Please contact Real-life bugs and insects and politely ask them to stop killing insects.

 

The shooting industry likes to present an image, of genteel 'sportsmanship', but it's a far cry from the truth.

 

LACS on Shooting.....

 

We regularly receive calls from people shocked by guns shooting over private land or footpaths with little regard for the safety of the public, or of shoots entering private land to recover shot birds. Worse still, people are often too afraid to speak out or criticise shoots for fear of intimidation or harassment.

 

Antisocial Behaviour is a Countryside Issue too

ASBOs are not just for townies. If shoots engage in intimidating behaviour or harassment they are breaking the law and deserve to get one too.

 

Our booklet aims to answer questions dealing with such areas, and to clarify some areas of the law regarding firearms and trespass. It also gives advice on obtaining ASBOs for shoots that deserve them.

 

Shoots are not above the law!