I write in response to the readers disgusted by the abandonment of animal carcasses on the streets of Brighton.

I would like to pose this question: Do these same readers find carcasses acceptable when displayed at The Tate Gallery in a tank of formaldehyde as a work of art?

If shock tactics work to bring a minority grievance to the public's eye, then so be it.

When this farcical law to outlaw fox hunting appears on to the statute book, many more thousands of animals will have to be slaughtered.

But this will be done in private so as not to "offend' those who profess to wave the animal rights banner.

Country husbandry should be left to those who are qualified to address the problems of vermin, as it has for centuries.

Personally, I draw the line at stag hunting as I don't consider these beasts as pests but, having seen the damage foxes can create even around inner-city areas (especially around the Wish Park area of Hove), I have no problem with fox-hunting.

If there has to be a choice between the slaughter of thousands of

pedigree animals (dogs and horses) or the common fox, I know which I shall choose.

David Spear

-New Church Road, Hove