'I love the countryside, but I do not love the hunt': A farmer (David
Welch, former deputy chairman of Saatchi & Saatchi) says that hunting is cruel,
cowardly and boorish: 'Usually the first indication that a hunt is in the area
is when a dozen or so cars barrel down the drive, park in front of the barns or
house and decant their occupants, and 30 or 40 mounted followers proceed to charge,
unannounced, over my property, cutting up fields from which stock has been moved
for the winter to ensure good grazing during the spring and summer. When I inform
mounted — or car — followers that they are not welcome, I am usually abused, sometimes
threatened and invariably told that I do not understand the ways of the countryside.'
[Spectator].
