League Against Cruel Sports membership plummets

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League Against Cruel Sports' membership plummets

Membership of the League Against Cruel Sports has fallen by 20%.

By Selena Masson, Shooting Times

Thursday, 06 March 2008

Membership of anti-fieldsports organisation, the League Against Cruel Sports (LACS), has dramatically fallen by 20%.

Barry Hugill, spokesman for LACS, admitted its membership subscriptions had plummeted from 5,500 to 4,500.

The news comes as the number of people attending hunts has seen a marked increased since the introduction of the 2004 Hunting Act.

Barry Hugill said: "The reason why more people than ever are supporting the hunts is because they have removed the cruelty by going drag hunting rather than killing foxes and stags."

The Countryside Alliance's Tim Bonner told Shooting Times this is the first time for about a decade LACS has actually admitted how low its membership is: "The organisation has been in denial for years. The figure is the clearest possible illustration of how marginalised the anti-shooting and hunting campaign has become. One of the most important ways of measuring the success of our own campaigns must be that an increasingly informed public wants nothing to do with LACS."

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Comments

james fredrick hampton

Mon, 16th Nov 2009 19:46:03

Im only 15 years old and this is wot i have to say they are all a bunch of twats and they dont under stand the inportace of local hunts and shoots to the country side and local farmers in the area they help loads and most of them are from the city any way so they just dont under stand if they looked how long the sports have been around they would proble understan more because it is tradion to a lot of people in the country side just to nipe of to there local hunt or shoot for the scoacil side of the hunt or shoot there is a big scoail community to the hunt and shoot and thats all I'v got to say really.

TOM

Tue, 25th Mar 2008 14:36:37

They are all wankers and neesd to leave us to our own sports and it is not just a sport it is a way of life for thousands of people,

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