Clause 8
Hunting Bill
10:30 am
Mr Peter Luff (Mid Worcestershire, Conservative)
I am grateful to my hon. Friend the Member for Bexhill and Battle (Gregory Barker) for his observations. I do not want to get into a debate about individual methods; I want to return to the amendments. However, I have a lot of sympathy with what he said and the important point is that his comments were drawn from a document written by vets. Members of Parliament are ridiculing those comments, which brings me back to my central point; I prefer the opinion of vets. Vets presumably have taken into account the length of the chase in reaching their sincerely held views. Anthropomorphism and technical judgments about the biology of animals are beyond my philosophical and biological abilities.