Title: Sunday Telegraph: This silly hunting fudge will never work
Description: Max Hastings, president of the CPRE. Field sports must stand or fall on the principle that the pursuit of the birds and beasts of the field is one of the oldest and most natural human activities. As soon as anyone starts to measure "cruelty", the cause is lost, above all in the case of coarse fish, tormented by rod and line before being returned to the water to suffer the same ordeal again and again.