The Countryside Alliance claims in recent letters to the press that hunting is fully open and accountable.
As a hunt monitor working with Protect Our Wild Animals I can tell your readers that hunters and their supporters make it as difficult as possible for us to film the awful reality of hunting.
Our view is blocked, we have to cope with intimidation and insults, accompanied by obscene hand and finger gestures. We have had our cars damaged, I have been threatened with a knife and we have been spat at and assaulted.
All this in an attempt to stop us collecting the evidence to put before Parliament, the media and the public.
If hunting is to be open and accountable I challenge the CA to let hunt monitors attend any hunt and allow us to inspect and film the corpses of foxes.
Allow us on private property to witness and film 'dig outs' and 'flushing the hounds' and to allow us to film what I consider to be one of the most loathsome practices, euphemistically called 'autumn hunting' but in reality the savaging of cubs still partially dependent on their mothers.
If your readers would also like to see hunting with dogs made illegal this autumn, they should write to Tony Blair at Downing Street.
JUDY GILBERT Hunt Monitor, Protect Our Wild Animals, London
