I read with interest the huge amount given in donations from some of Britain's wealthiest people to finance The Countryside Alliance's fight to preserve fox-hunting (The Argus, September 20).

Its highest-profile donor was the Duke of Westminster who gave at least £380,000 in the past three years and provided a £500,000 overdraft guarantee earlier this year.

We have all been given to understand how poor the farmers are and how they rely on subsidies.

How could they afford to have hundreds of thousands of people demonstrating in London and the possibility of hundreds more taking part in the coming year if it were not for these contributions?

Surely the money they receive from these donations would be better spent on the countryside itself instead of trying to perpetuate the hounding of the poor old fox?

If these rich people have nothing better to spend their money on, maybe they could donate to a more worthy cause, such as helping the poor desperate people in Sudan.

Even better still, let's see the young men who broke into the House of Commons take a leaf out of Prince Harry's book and go to Sudan and see how really poor people exist.

-Judy Way, Southwick