Hunting with hounds, horn and cry (also called Vénerie), is a practice of feudal hunting which consists in launching a pack of dogs in pursuit of a wild animal, until the exhaustion of the latter. The hunt for the animal can last for hours, during which it runs at full speed, in enormous stress.
At the end of strength, the animal ends up collapsing. He was then pierced with a stabbing weapon, a spear or a dagger, and sometimes dies screaming in pain. Sometimes the animal is shredded by dogs. Many animals die struck by cardiac arrest due to stress and the frantic race inflicted on them. Those who repeat are often injured for life or condemned to dye.
Courre hunt sows chaos and terror: Dog diets running on roads, attacked domestic animals, howls, hunted animals looking for refuge in villages, stations, ports, public buildings or inside Private property, killed in front of children or hospitals. The government supports hunters, despite so much suffering and insecurity.
Several neighboring countries such as Germany, Belgium, Scotland, England and Wales have abolished hunting. It does not exist in the Netherlands or Luxembourg. Since its ban, English and German hunters practice it without killing animals, with simple lures like prey. All leisure must be practiced without cruelty.
with the complicity of certain elected officials
Despite these advances abroad, France is one of the six countries in the world which authorize this archaic hunt. The law proposals aimed at abolishing it were all defeated by the government or the Parliament, under the diktat of the hunter lobby and with the complicity of certain elected officials.
Again recently, a citizen petition was launched on the Senate platform for the abolition of hunting. It was arbitrarily closed by the Conference of Presidents.
However, 86 % of French people are opposed to hunting, according to a Ifop survey of April 2, 2021 . The will of this overwhelming majority of French people was flouted in favor of the pleasure of 110,000 people (around 10,000 practitioners and 100,000 followers). A total denial of democracy.
All signatories, business leaders, artists, scientists, academics, writers or journalists, join the vast majority of French people who wish to abolish hunting and ask Parliament to seize themselves of this question and to end this cruel hobby.
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