In recent weeks articles have appeared in a number of newspapers and magazines that seem to glorify fox hunting, an activity that involves people riding roughshod over the rights and livelihoods of farmers.

AS the current foxhunting season kicked off, record numbers of hunt ban notices appeared in provincial newspapers nationwide.

IN RECENT weeks, there has been a lot of debate about foxhunting in this country in the light of the ban on it in Scotland and its impending abolition in the rest of Britain.