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	Foxhunting :: League Against Cruel Sports - North West Support Group - Fox Hunting in the UK
		The pro hunting group, which has accused the League of ‘promoting cruelty’ on its land, claim the footage proves the League is allowing animals to fall into a ‘horrific state’.
		League Against Cruel Sports Chief Executive Douglas Batchelor says, “This really is plumbing the depths, even by hunting fanatics’ standards.
		A League Against Cruel Sports investigation has unearthed thousands of dead gamebirds and eggs in a six feet deep pit.
	www.nwlacs.co.uk (873 words)

	League Against Cruel Sports - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The League Against Cruel Sports is an animal welfare organisation registered as a limited company (prohibited by law from acting as a charity because its aims are political) campaigning against blood sports, in particular fox hunting and hare coursing.
		The League was founded in 1924 by Henry Amos and Ernest Bell as the League for the Prohibition of Cruel Sports.
		The League supported the Protection of Wild Mammals (Scotland) Act, passed in 2002 by the Scottish Parliament, which make it illegal in Scotland to chase or deliberately kill a wild mammal with dogs and the Hunting Act 2004 which has similar effect in England and Wales.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/League_Against_Cruel_Sports (265 words)

	League Against Cruel Sports Submission (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The League is concerned that the Inquiry may find it extremely difficult to avoid charges of bias in its work and its findings due to the links between some members of the team and organizations and individuals closely associated with the pro hunting lobby.
		League Against Cruel Sports records show that between 1986 and 1994 18 members of official working terrier clubs, and 11 officials and employees of registered Fox hunts were convicted of badger digging or other offences under badger protection legislation.
		League film of hare being netted was shown to Stephen Harris who concluded that the method by which they were being netted, and the cages into which they were being put for transportation, were highly likely to stress the hares.
	www.huntinginquiry.gov.uk /evidence/league.htm (21524 words)

	NEWS ARCHIVE 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Note: the League Against Cruel Sports is currently conducting a survey of greyhound tracks to assess how many do provide air conditioning for greyhounds before and after their races.
		The League today challenged the hypocrisy of the college, which was founded in 1843 as a school for the Sons of Clergy for the Church of England.
		The League Against Cruel Sports today accused hunts of trying to fiddle their killing records to try to prove to MPs that they are a legitimate form of pest control.
	pages.zdnet.com /hrthompson/leagueagainstcruelsportswarwickshiregroup/id38.html (8310 words)

	UK Indymedia - League Against Cruel Sports cull deer using cruel methods (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The League Against Cruel Sports, the has been found using "illegal" methods to carry out culls of its own deer after a member of staff was filmed shooting them from the window of a Land Rover.
		The league has consistently claimed that it does not carry out "management culls" of its 250-strong herd because it does not believe that such methods are necessary, despite campaigners expressing worries that a proportion of the deer are suffering from malnutrition and diseases.
		Douglas Batchelor, the league's chief executive, said that although the deer were "wild" and were not fenced in, the sanctuary land could be categorised as enclosed.
	www.indymedia.org.uk /en/2004/02/285443.html (796 words)

	Wild Mammals (Protection) Bill (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The League Against Cruel Sports believes that wild mammals need to be specifically dealt with by a new protection law, to abolish cruelty and unacceptable methods of killing, taking or injuring all wild mammals -- whether they are "fortunate" enough to belong to an endangered species or not.
		A recent incident filmed by the League Against Cruel Sports, in which a stag hunted with hounds was shot at five times and wrestled underwater by hunt members before it died, was so barbaric that even the Masters of Deer Hounds Association banned the Hunt from operating for five weeks.
		The RSPCA and the League Against Cruel Sports are totally opposed to the use of snares, both because they cause great suffering and because they are not target specific.
	articles.animalconcerns.org /Faqs+Ref/wild_mammals.html (2274 words)

	Telegraph \| News
		Dozens of deer are dying of starvation and disease on a sanctuary owned by the League Against Cruel Sports because the anti-hunting group refuses to allow any form of culling.
		Gordon Pearce, who has been employed by the league for more than 30 years to put down injured or diseased red deer, claims that his employers have ignored his repeated warnings that some old or diseased animals must be culled to prevent others in the 350-strong herd from dying of starvation or disease.
		The League Against Cruel Sports was founded in 1924 by disgruntled members of the RSPCA.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/11/24/ndeer24.xml (1195 words)

	Telegraph \| News \| Deer society presses for inquiry into sanctuary
		The league's own deerstalker, Gordon Pearce, who took a series of photographs of the deer, accused the organisation of failing to heed his warnings that the animals did not have enough food.
		In the past, the league has sought the advice of the BDS, which was founded by deer-lovers in 1963 and states explicitly that it is not a hunters' organisation.
		A league spokesman said: "With its close links to field sports organisations, it comes as no surprise to the league that the BDS has chosen at the behest of its members to attack an organisation that does not support their principle of management by killing."
	www.portal.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/12/01/ndeer01.xml (477 words)

	AR.net >> Hunt Supporter Threatens Libel Lawsuit Against Opponents (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		We are sick and tired of people getting away with it and other people believing they are right." Mr Harris said he had hunted all his life, and that it gave him the opportunity to follow the hounds and ride across country where he would not normally be allowed to go.
		Suggestions that hunters have a case against those people and organizations that say hunting is cruel have no basis in law.There is and should be no freedom to be cruel.
		A cruel act is cruel, whether it be by design or neglect.
	www.animalrights.net /articles/2003/000376.html (586 words)

	AIM25: League Against Cruel Sports: League Against Cruel Sports
		The League's stated principle was `That it is iniquitous to inflict suffering, either directly or indirectly, upon sentient animals for the purpose of sport.' It initially focused on the prohibition of recognised blood-sports including fox-hunting, stag-hunting, otter-hunting, hare-hunting, rabbit and hare-coursing.
		In 1932, the dissidents formed the National Society for the Abolition of Cruel Sports (NSACS) split from the League, however publicity generated by the spilt attracted sufficient membership for both the LACS and the NSACS to survive.
		The League's tactics were mainly designed to general publicity by pamphlets and leaflets especially, as well as letter writing and articles in local and national newspapers.
	www.aim25.ac.uk /cgi-bin/frames/fulldesc?inst_id=73&coll_id=7242 (1427 words)

	League Against Cruel Sports - campaigning to end cruelty to animals in the name of 'sport'
		The League is campaigning to end this unnecessary suffering which affects both wild and domestic animals.
		The launch comes in the wake of the case of Ellie, a 12-month-old labrador who had to be rescued this week from a snare set on a fence along a public footpath in Tetbury, Gloucestershire.
		With hunts regularly claiming to be breaking the law, and engaging in cruelty, the League Against Cruel Sports has established a new Prosecution Unit to ensure that the evidence gathered by our Hunt Crimewatch staff and volunteers of illegal hunting can be used to secure prosecutions of those who break the law.
	www.league.uk.com (273 words)

	League Against Cruel Sports - About us (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Founded in 1924, the League Against Cruel Sports is the UK's leading animal welfare group campaigning to end cruelty to animals in the name of "sport." Over many years, we were always at the forefront of the campaign to make fox hunting, the hunting of other mammals and hare coursing illegal.
		Since 1959, the League has purchased land of special benefit to wildlife, and the animals that live on this land are free from persecution and disturbance.
		League For The Prohibition Of Blood Sports", The Platform Party at Garden Meeting, Barley House, Exeter, July 1927.
	www.league.uk.com /about_us (301 words)

	Animal Aid : News : Pheasants in The Times
		The League Against Cruel Sports and Animal Aid have made clear that they intend to step up their campaign against shooting as a bloodsport.
		But Douglas Batchelor, chief executive of the League Against Cruel Sports, believes that an MP will be persuaded to introduce a Private Member's Bill to start the process.
		The league is concerned at the number of pheasants killed which are not eaten.
	www.animalaid.org.uk /news/2004/0411time.htm (634 words)

	Our Dogs - News Section (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The effects of these comments and the strength of feeling within the club against the proposal and its subsequent handling by the Club committee had seriously affected the recent championship show held by this club where a shocking and unheard of 76% of entrants were absent.
		She went on to say that "The League Against Cruel Sports were in support of Wild Life Conservation, land and butterflies".
		Carolyn Muirhead (a committee member who voted against the motion) was at the meeting – she said that she didn’t think anybody realised what was going to be the result of this vote and thought the decision would be voted against.
	www.ourdogs.co.uk /News/May2004/News070504/butterflies.htm (2214 words)

	BBC NEWS \| UK \| UK Politics \| The difficulties of a compromise
		Ahead of the vote the League Against Cruel Sports told the BBC that there had to be a total ban.
		Lena Cracknell, spokeswoman for the anti-hunt League Against Cruel Sports, rejected the notion that a middle way could be found that would see hunting licensed and regulated.
		Speaking from the kennels of the Essex and Suffolk Foxhounds, she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that it had to be a "total ban or nothing".
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/low/uk_news/politics/1879027.stm (483 words)

	U.K. group says illegal hunting widespread - Boston.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The League Against Cruel Sports said it had evidence that about one-fourth of the 317 hunts from May to October disregarded the Hunting Act of 2004, which came into effect in February and prohibits most forms of hunting with dogs.
		Despite widespread opposition to the law, Walsh said she was aware of only one case where someone was prosecuted for breaking it.
		The League Against Cruel Sports, however, said it had counted 157 instances of illegal hunting, based on police and media reports, monitors' reports and information from the public.
	www.boston.com /news/world/europe/articles/2005/11/04/uk_group_says_illegal_hunting_widespread (389 words)

	Animal Aid : News : Hunting Bill, a great day for wildlife
		This was the world in which the League Against Cruel Sports was formed in 1924 (or the League for the Prohibition of Cruel Sports as it was called until 1943).
		The British Field Sports Society continued from 1930 into the 1990s, when, in a society that had grown increasingly hostile to its agenda, it became the Countryside Alliance - a cynical attempt to present its single-issue obsession as a concern for wider rural interests.
		The formation of the Hunt Saboteurs (1963) and the new strategy of the League Against Cruel Sports to purchase land in key positions to foil the hunt (begun in 1959) brought fresh impetus to the campaign.
	www.animalaid.org.uk /news/2005/0502hunt.htm (1297 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Hunting - Not much good will in Christmas cards from hunt lobby
		The League Against Cruel Sports is currently running a money-raising drive for its Hunt Crimewatch Programme.
		A spokeswoman for the league said last night that the police were investigating and the anti-hunt body was confident that it would not have to pick up the bill for the mischief caused by the Countryside Alliance.
		The league spokeswoman said it was an offence to abuse the Freepost system and an offence to incite abuse of the system, both of which were being investigated.
	news.scotsman.com /topics.cfm?tid=40&id=2427932005 (685 words)

	Troubled by the Hunt? A guide to your property rights. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		It is also important that you contact the League Against Cruel Sports which keeps a record of all disputes involving hunts, and who can put you in contact with a firm of solicitors experienced in hunt-related matters.
		Huntsmen or shooters may have 'sporting rights' in respect of the land or there may be an easement over the land allowing persons to use the land in a certain way or for certain purposes, such as hunting.
		The League Against Cruel Sports campaigns for Parliament to ban the cruel sport of hunting with dogs.
	www.talkaboutpets.com /group/rec.birds/messages/149810.html (3026 words)

	BBC - Coventry and Warwickshire Features - Warwickshire hunting in 2004
		The county is also home to the powerful and passionate Warwickshire League Against Cruel Sports Group.
		The Warwickshire League Against Cruel Sports Group campaigns against all forms of sports involving animals.
		The League Against Cruel Sports began life in 1924 as the League for the Prohibition of Cruel Sports in London.
	www.bbc.co.uk /coventry/features/stories/2004/01/warwickshire-hunting-in-2004.shtml (746 words)

	League Against Cruel Sports : Bullfighting
		The League Against Cruel Sports has launched 'Boycott the Bloodbath', a campaign against bullfighting.
		After more than 80 years of opposition to traditional British bloodsports, we believe the time is right to address another so-called 'sport', which depends on money generated from British tourists.
		All bullfighting is barbaric and inherently cruel in both design and practice, and we seek a complete end to bullfighting anywhere in the world.
	www.league.org.uk /content.asp?CategoryID=1514 (131 words)

	BBC NEWS \| UK \| Protesters close to their quarry
		In 1891, the Humanitarian League had been set up, and animal welfare was one of its platforms.
		But the league's embracing of vegetarianism led its members to be classed as cranks and it disappeared.
		But the league began to looked towards the anti-nuclear campaigners of the 1950s and 1960s for inspiration - particularly at their skill in getting publicity for their cause.
	news2.thdo.bbc.co.uk /1/low/uk/428984.stm (650 words)

	ShropshireStar.com - News - Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		After the League's report, called Digging the Dirt, was released today, the Federation of Welsh Packs, the governing body designed to unite and represent organised hunting in Wales, announced it had suspended the pack pending an inquiry.
		The League says it uncovered evidence including hounds incapable of killing a fox with a quick nip to the back of the neck, and terriers attacking a trapped fox, which was screaming while being dug out.
		Douglas Batchelor, chief executive of the League, described the contents of a video which contained footage shot by the investigators as "grim" and said it was "awful, awful stuff".
	www.shropshirestar.com /cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi?archive=5&num=14675 (387 words)

	Anti-hunting league expels top officials
		TWO senior members of the League Against Cruel Sports have been expelled after becoming involved in compromise talks with the foxhunting lobby.
		Mark Davies, a former chairman of the league, and Steve Watson, formerly the regional representative for Bedfordshire, have been thrown out because they are also leading figures in the Wildlife Network, a group which is seeking to reform rather than abolish hunting.
		However, the two men are threatening a court challenge to the decision, claiming that the league made no attempt to inform them of any charges until they were called upon to defend themselves at the meeting.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/1997/08/20/nhun20.html (521 words)

	The League Against Cruel Sports (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Originally called the League for the Prohibition of Cruel Sports, it was founded In 1924 by two former members of the Humanitarian League, who were also disillusioned members of the RSPCA, Henry Amos and Ernest Bell.
		Another of the League's Directors has reported them to the DTI - and proposed a motion of no confidence in her fellow directors and the Chief Executive.
		February 2001 started off badly when the ASA upheld a complaint against it over an ad placed in the September 2000 edition of 'The House magazine', in which LACS claimed the overall contribution of traditional foxhunting was insignificant in terms of the management of the fox population as a whole.
	www.huntfacts.com /LACS.htm (883 words)

	Fox Hunting in the UK :: Foxhunting
		In an age of battery farms, when few foxes know what a chicken looks like, and when reputable scientific studies have shown only a tiny minority of foxes take live lambs, this is unsurprising.
		In fact, the most common complaint against foxes today is that of digging and fouling in urban gardens.
		The League has obtained post-mortem evidence from veterinary surgeons to support that this is how foxes recovered by League monitors have died.
	www.nwlacs.co.uk /foxhunting.htm (707 words)

	Exeter League Against Cruel Sports (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Hunters often defend their sport by saying that in the absence of the hunt, foxes would be controlled through the activities of farmers or others with shotguns and rifles.
		For "sport" they want a "warrantable stag", and these are becoming increasingly poorer as the big boys are taken for trophies.
		Particularly cruel and distressing to watch is the "cutting-off" from the herd of a suitable victim, as happens when hunting hinds.
	www.huntinginquiry.gov.uk /evidence/exeterlacs.htm (5047 words)

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