"We are needed to keep the population of foxes in check, it is as simple as that," he stated at the debate.  "If we were not allowed to hunt foxes, then there would be lots of them.  Lots more of them.  You see?" But surely there is a more humane way to reduce the population? "Well, if we didn't hunt them down with vicious hounds and shoot them, we wouldn't be satisfying our own desire to kill another living creature and we'd have to murder someone.  And no-one wants that, do they?"
Most certainly not.  Lord Fotherington-Carstaires also pointed out the number of people whose livelihoods depend on the sport.
"Why, if there was no more fox-hunting I'd have to fire Jenkins, the lad who keeps my gun clean, and Jasper, who holds my hat, and young Fortesque-Smythe who blows on the trumpet.  You see?  Massive unemployment."  This is partially the fault of scientific experiments in the sixties, which kept fox-hunters in sealed bio-spheres for several months, causing them to inbreed and create a strange and over-populated tribal fraternity of jodhpur-wearing freaks.  No offence.
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