*cantbelieve - wheres the horse cruelty? You do know you get absolutely nowhere by ill treating a horse and its the fastest route to misbehaviour? Hunting horses are very prized and since they tend to have the summers off and many are kept once retired, they have a pretty good life. Irish hunting is hard on horses, true enough, its a good background for a young horse but would you buy a 9 or a 10 year old that had done it all its life if you wanted a sports horse for competition?
I don't have the requisite permissions to watch the whole video on You Tube (A Minority Pastime) so I watched the extended trailer, and unless you are quite an obsessed person against hunting, I'm not sure what you think it does. The worst scenes involve the antis themselves and some set clips where they have used dead animals to prove their points. I find that quite sick. It seems to consist of a few women talking in very sad, aggrieved tones, as if they are under great stress, and describing things in very emotive language. The scene where the fox is knocked down by a white van and filmed by the antis, and the voiceover blaming it on the hunt, is one of the most seriously disturbing things I have seen or heard, it is so twisted to use the death of an animal in this way and what it has to do with hunting, I do not know.
Here is a synopsis:
- A woman describing some noises of an animal being attacked by other animals with superimposed sounds of animal noises and a man making indistinct grunting noises, "Outlaw one of the last vestiges of aristocratic privileges", anti-hunting supporters speaking in aggrieved tones about things comparing hunting, amongst other things, to slavery, such as "each hunt going out 3 or 4 times a week", "this animal has a fully developed nervous system capable of feeling pain, treated by hunters as trash", "developed into a list of horrors, I started searching for information and found the League Against Cruel Sports" which "holds thousands of pictures" "evidence they say of the cruelty of hunting with dogs". More people in offices talking in aggrieved tones. Talk of images having power over people to make the sport work. Interview with a mounted Jonathon Seed asking him to comment on some photographs of dead foxes which he says he cannot comment on as he has no idea where they came from. More emotive comments from an anguished anti talking of "a horiffic mirror image, a dark, dark world, nothing was what it appeared to be, this sinister violence and cruelty but people were saying it wasn't happening". Mark Hill, a Hunt Chairman interviewed, seemed quite polite, suggested if someone wanted to find out what they were doing that day (laying trails) they could have phoned the previous day to have arranged to have been shown it better, some irritated sounding locals, 3 scenes involving horses, one next to a car, two of the rider shouting at the anti blocking them in.
tbh the worst thing I saw in the trailer was a fox being run over by a white van and one of the aggrieved sounding antis who appeared to have a video link to the incident saying "That wasn't your fault, it was the hunters" although there was no hunt in sight or sound, plus a description of a dead fox on the roof of a car by an anti which described blood as having poured out of its mouth. "It was the fox that had been coming into my garden. That was the way they knew to hurt me" and a video of a dead fox on the roof of a car (no blood but dead).
"Its now been six years since the intrusion into my village. Since then I've found out thousands of facts..." says an anguished woman, more antis screaming about their cars and for the horses to get away from their cars (why do they not go on foot or by bike?), antis complaining of abuse, violence and being stalked, in the same aggrieved, victim-esque tone, people arguing, camera shots of the ground, cuts to Celtic feel good theme tune at the end, interspersed with some shots of foxes running across land and some antis trying to get in the way of horses, the horses fortunately having enough sense to not stand on their toes.