Letter to your Conservative MP (1)

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Dear (the name of your local Conservative MP),

I am writing to ask you about your views on revoking the Hunting Ban if the Conservatives win at the next election.

After researching the Conservatives and their policies, I learnt that David Cameron plans to allow hunting in the UK once again.

This goes against the majority of the public who agree with the current ban on hunting. A poll conducted by MORI showed that 75% of the public do not want to see the ban lifted. And the Bristol News website states that the majority of Tory supporters don’t want to see the ban withdrawn.

Even though it is claimed that hunting is an effective way of controlling the populations of animals, according to the League Against Cruel Sports, there is little evidence to prove that foxes in particular are a significant pest nationally.

Some farmers claim that foxes are a big threat to their lambs and gamekeepers believe that they are significant in causing heavy losses of their pheasants and grouse. However, the Burns Enquiry shows that fox predation is not a significant cause of lamb deaths. A study on grouse in Scotland found that fox predation only becomes a considerable problem if grouse population is already low.

Studies on mink have shown that an increase in their population results in a decrease of moor hen and coots’ populations. However, hunting mink has not proven to be an effective way of controlling the animals. One hunt, for example, hunted for 156 days and only caught 84 mink. Two thirds of these mink escaped. So it seems senseless to allow hunts to chase this animal if there isn’t even the argument of “controlling numbers”.

Groups who deem deer to be pests and have hunted them in the past with dogs, have seriously compromised the deer welfare. Research has found that some deer have been chased for as long as a day, until the deer becomes too exhausted to run any further and their muscles can no longer support movement. It has been proven with video evidence that deer have then been savaged by the dogs. The hunts claim that their dogs are trained to wait for the rest of the hunt. The deer is then humanely shot. However, sometimes the dogs reach the animal before they are called away and attack.

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Facts aside, I don’t agree that hunting should be reinstated. I believe that the animals should be left alone to live in the wild, as each being should have a right to live.

I would be grateful if you could send me your views on this matter, and whether you would decide to revoke the Hunting Ban if this opportunity arose.

I look forward to hearing your thoughts.

Yours Sincerely,

(your name).

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