It has nothing to do with ecology, with farming, with husbandry or with the social content of the clubs which practise hare coursing.
So it can come as no surprise to the hare coursing interests or the community at large that we intend to abolish hare coursing.
The case against hare coursing has been put in two ways.
I do not think that hare coursing is more cruel than some other things, or cruel at all.
We can only take evidence from what we see and hear at hare coursing.
I owe some responsibility to my constituents who, by a considerable majority, have expressed their views in favour of hare coursing.
Are they to be hauled up and prosecuted for assisting at hare coursing?
It is precisely on that point that there is a difference between hare coursing and the normal course of events of animal against animal.
