SUPPORTERS signed a declaration to keep on fox hunting, even if it is eventually banned (November 2).

I noticed that a Mori Poll commissioned by the campaign to Protect Hunted Animals (CPHA) declared that 76 per cent of ordinary British people do not agree to defying a ban on fox hunting.

They think the sport is barbaric.

Would these same people consider it acceptable for a fox to break into our hen house and terrorise 30 silkie hens, kill one to eat, and then kill the rest and drag them across our field and our neighbours' field, leaving them be-headed and disembowelled, just because they were there?

If that is not barbaric, what is?

If a human being did that, they would be a mass murderer.

I can only pose the question, do the ordinary British public know both sides of the story?

Mrs D A Hope,

Thornton-le-Clay, York.

Updated: 09:59 Thursday, November 13, 2003