Quote Originally Posted by Gilrandir View Post
Killing lambs to eat them and killing lambs for the plain fun of it are two different killings, aren't they?
They are, and as usual, the human negligence and killing for profit/fun are the real problems indeed.

http://www.conservativesagainstfoxhu...sheep-farmers/

One of the great myths that the hunters peddle is that foxes are a terrible problem for sheep farmers. It is rubbish of course, but as ever they don’t let inconvenient facts get in the way of their supposed justification for fox persecution.

Research has conclusively shown that the fox is primarily a scrounger of carrion. Animals that have died from disease, malnutrition and hypothermia all present feeding opportunities for foxes. Sadly many sheep farmers present the average fox with plenty of “fallen stock” as a feed supply.
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Ask yourself, is the fox really responsible for all that the farmer claims and remember that it is all too easy for the incompetent and or lazy shepherd to blame the fox!
Farmers should take more personal responsibility and not try to outsource the blame and get the nanny state to fix the problems caused by their own negligence. Common sense!