After decades of highly charged efforts to end fox hunting throughout Europe, from sabatoging hunts to building public opposition to the sport, Animal Welfare and Animal Rights groups won a major victory in Britain. The elected House of Commons invoked a rarely used 1949 Parliament Act to force a ban on fox hunting into law despite the delaying tactics and opposition of the unelected House of Lords. Hunters vowed legal fights, huge marches like the one in September 2002 with 400,000 supporters of fox hunting, and outright defiance of the law. Without a big rout of the Labour Party in the next elections, though, the law will likely remain in effect on the up-to-now popular country sport that is despised by many urbanites. Read More