A hunt saboteur is a type of animal rights or animal welfareactivist who believes in direct intervention to prevent hunters from killing or hurting an animal. These types of actions are more often directed at stopping blood sports but are also, sometimes, attempting to stop food hunters. Dear Kitten I love you more then taking a shit. ... Animal welfare is the viewpoint that some or all animals, especially those under human care, should be treated in such a way that they do not suffer unnecessarily. ... Activism, in a general sense, can be described as involvement in action to bring about change, be it social, political, environmental, or other change. ... Hunting is, in its most general sense, the pursuit of a target. ... A blood sport is a sport involving bloodshed or the killing of animals for food, pest control, or entertainment. ...
Anti-bloodsports campaigners divide into those who believe in direct intervention and those only watch the hunters to see if the animal welfare laws get broken. The direct interventionists lay false trails or use sound and visual distractions to prevent the hunters from being successful. The non-interventionists use video, photography and witness statements to bring to justice any hunters who commit offences.
In the United Kingdom the interventionists are often (but not always) members of the Hunt Saboteurs Association, while the non-interventionists are often members of the League Against Cruel Sports. The Hunt Saboteurs Association is an organisation that uses direct action to stop the hunting of animals. ... The League Against Cruel Sports is a pressure group based in the United Kingdom that campaigns against blood sports, in particular fox hunting and hare coursing. ...
Hunting with hounds has now become illegal in the U.K., putting hunt saboteurs in the position where they seldom need to do direct actions anymore, since they only need to call the police and report an illegal hunt.
Huntsaboteurs are also reluctant to become witnesses in such cases since witnesses have been bound over to keep the peace by the invocation of the obscure 1361 Justices of the Peace Act [36].
The huntsaboteurs have been disadvantaged by the professional and commercial imperatives of the journalistic process, by their own name, terminology and appearance and ultimately by their lack of 'cultural capital' to offer alternative interpretations of events in a media which is structured towards the reproduction of the dominant ideology.
The huntsaboteurs however would argue that they are achieving something worthwhile each time they prevent a kill, the aim of their direct action was never to join in the democratic process it was in lieu of a slow legislative response.
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