James Barrington

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1. on December 28, 2013 at 7:15 pm | Reply Anonymous

   
   
2. on May 11, 2015 at 10:30 pm | Reply marta Falco

   do you understand how you came to change your mind so radically? Did you fall and bang your head on a rock? one day LACS next day CA?

   
   
   • on May 12, 2015 at 8:21 am | Reply jamesbarrington

     Perhaps if you read the knowledgeable comments on this blog from individuals who are pro hunting (as opposed to the mainly blinkered and sometimes insulting) comments from those opposed, you might have your answer.

     
     
3. on May 23, 2015 at 8:50 pm | Reply John Fitzgerald

   Animal cruelty is still animal cruelty. Hare coursing, fox hunting, and stag hunting remain the cruel practices they were despite Mr Barrington’s conversion to the pro-recreational cruelty (blood sports) lobby. Fox hunters and hare coursers have also converted to the anti-recreational animal cruelty side. The terror and suffering of a hare in coursing do not cease to be a reality because Mr. Barrington changed sides. Video footage and eye-witness accounts of animal cruelty posing as sport are more reliable than the writings of a man who turned against his former colleagues for reasons that had nothing to do with the rights and wrongs of blood sports.

   
   
4. on August 14, 2016 at 10:15 pm | Reply lesleyanimalblog

   This is a very interesting blog.

   
   
5. on January 31, 2017 at 2:42 pm | Reply suburbanbushwacker

   I’ve always been fascinated by people who are brave enough to change their minds, James Barrington’s journey is a more extreme version of my own, this is indeed a very interesting blog.

   
   
6. on July 3, 2017 at 7:02 pm | Reply Ryan Connolly

   Hi James how can you be a vegetarian and support hunting foxes with dogs?. Would it not be better allowing farmers to shoot foxes who are pests or are killing a farmers animals be the most humane way?.

   
   
   • on July 8, 2017 at 2:50 pm | Reply jamesbarrington

     Hello Ryan Being vegetarian is irrelevant to the debate about wildlife and how and if it should be managed. You mention shooting animals that are ‘pests’, but wildlife management is not strictly about pest control – it is more about the health and limitation of the population left alive, rather than the numbers killed. Farmers can shoot foxes now, if they wish, but there will always be the possibility of wounding. Hunting with hounds is selective, testing and non-wounding. In that regard it is a unique part of the wildlife management process.

     
     
     • on July 27, 2017 at 11:17 pm Ryan Connolly

       James you say being a vegetarian is irrelevant but i disagree. If you disagree with animals being killed for food how can you agree with fox hunting?. It doesn’t make sense. If fox hunting isn’t about pest control what is it about then?. In my opinion it’s because fox hunters on horseback enjoy dressing up, chasing a terrified fox and ripping it to shreds. You say hunting with hounds is about health and limitation and is selective, testing and non wounding but that is complete nonsense. Fox hunting doesn’t hunt unhealthy foxes but any fox it comes across the dogs will rip to shreds. You also say fox hunting controls the limitation of foxes but again this is complete nonsense. If there was that many foxes why do fox hunters breed them?. I still say leave the foxes and their cubs alone and only allow farmers to shoot them if they’re being a pest or are killing a farmers animals.

       
       
     • on January 2, 2020 at 5:11 pm Paul

       Glad to hear that you are still following a vegetarian lifestyle, Jim.