... fox hunting ...

That would be more convincing if the people instigating the fox hunts hadn't often raised the fox in a kennel themselves.

If they were really controlling the fox population, that'd be one thing, but they simply want to participate in killing an animal in the guise of population control.

I completely recognize the historical necessity for fox hunting. That necessity is gone. (One wonders, however, how the fox came to be overpopulated in the first place. Was it an import from elsewhere? Did its natural predators die off?)