If you went to Spain and said ban Bull Fighting, they would tell you to get lost as they have been doing it for hundreds, if not thousands of years. Its part of their herratige and culture just as much fox hunting is ours.

It came from a need to keep the fox population down. Just developed from here.

But there are far more effective and barbaric methods. How about setting fire to dens then shooting them when they come out. Or Steel Traps? Snares?

I would rather them hunt, at least the fox has a chance of getting away.