I'm torn!Coming from a long line of farmers there is a great tradition in my family, although me and my parents didn't farm my uncles and auntis are still lamb farming.

Let me give you a few things to think about, badgers aren't fluffy lovey dovey black and white docile creatures, they are more destructive among the sheep than foxes, yet they are protected. The number of foxes in mid wales has absolutely shot up to uncontrollable levels.

While the method of fox hunting with dogs wasn't the most effective or dignified way of killing foxes, it's more for the fun than anything, it did drive them away.

Farmers now resort to shooting and trapping, I go up to the farm in Montgomeryshire few times a year and they have a chalk board with how many foxes they have shot, not killed, shot and since the few weeks before Easter when the lambing season started they have shot around 200 foxes.

This is people's livelihood we are talking about. If those foxes took 1 lamb in their lifetime, £10 a lamb - it's more than that but say £10, that's £2000 lost. In the news and media all we get is that these lovely dovey cute sweet animials are being killed by arrogant ignorant toffs, when that is such a skewed and biased view.

I don;t think us city slickers and urbanites should have as much say what goes on in the country as peoples lives are the countryside.

I find it hard to agree with hunting with dogs, but there should be a window for a planned cull.

The missus' is American, we stayed with her grandfather a few years back, and it was the hunting season and we shot about 10 deer, was amazing the steaks, and all the meet that came off it. Very bloody but in the end tasted great. Now this was in a controlled environment. Only 2 weeks of the year can you shoot deer in most places I think.