There is exciting news from England. A Devon huntsman has been found guilty of attacking an anti-bloodsports campaigner who was filming the hunt. The BBC reports Christopher Manes repeatedly punched Kevin Hill, a hunt monitor with the International Fund for Animal Welfare.
Otis Ferry, son of Roxy Music singer Bryan Ferry, was reportedly the target of PETA protestors at the Burberry spring/summer collection show in Milan. Otis Ferry was once also a protestor. He and others disrupted the House of Commons when it was debating a ban on hunting with dogs in 2004.
Protests of this kind are all well and good. But when are we going to learn that we must reframe the issue of wearing fur from a cruelty-free lifestyle choice issue to also one that places it squarely into the political arena?