Carbonara Mailcopiesto: never

Speaking for myself (just making that clear, as you've followed up to Jane), I'm human too, or perhaps too human.

I've no objection to any of them provided they're implemented with respect for the lives, health and welfare of the animals involved. I simply think it would be very satisfying to reveal the utter incompetence of most 'sportsmen' when deprived of their technology. It's not as thought they hunt to survive -- most of them don't need the meat, hell, coarse fishermen rarely eat what they catch. How on earth can a fisherman stand triumphant, having outsmarted a *fish* with every device human science and money can devise? What sport is found by those waiting in a trench dug behind baited ground on which fibreglbutt decoys are laid out to lure in wild geese, or the guns waiting for the beaters to drive custom-bred, custom-fed pheasants into their sights? It's not sport, it's the anbreasthesis of what was once held to be sport. It's not art, craft, skill, it's dissolution, a deliberate self-indulgent selfish waste of resources, all of which happen to be alive and capable of suffering.

Good heavens, sorry about that.

regards sarah

-- Think of it as evolution in action.