In reply to Alan Page (Oxford Mail, May 19), many people who are against fox hunting are also vegetarians and are not likely to be eating at fast-food restaurants like McDonalds.

I see the point Mr Page is trying to make - that the majority of British people who are against fox hunting are also eating fast food, factory-farmed meat, battery eggs and so on. Most people who eat meat go for the cheap, factory-farmed produce because that is what they can afford. They enjoy eating meat and either just don't think about how it was farmed and slaughtered, choose to remain ignorant about such facts or simply don't care.

Perhaps the ones who don't care are the same individuals who support hunting with hounds and want to see fox-hunting reinstated.

Most people see hunting with hounds as wrong because it is sadistic, unfair and unjustified. After all, the fox doesn't stand much chance of escaping with a bunch of men and women (mainly the wealthy but some working class too) on horseback, and a pack of hounds, all eager for a kill.

Even if the fox goes to ground, there are always the terriers to dig him out of his hiding place. Poisoning foxes should also be banned.

There's no need for it.

GILL WHITTY, Oxford