Killing for Sport

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Henry S. Salt (Editor)

Series: Animal Science, Issues and Research
BISAC: SPO022000

Killing for Sport was previously published in 1915 at a time when widespread attention was being drawn to questions concerning the land, it was especially fitting that the part played by the sportsman should not be overlooked, and that not only the cruelty, but the wastefulness of the practice of breeding and killing animals for mere amusement, should be made clear. By including in this volume a number of recent essays, the work of several writers (each of whom is responsible only for the views expressed by himself), it has been possible to present the subject of sport as regarded from various standpoints. The book, in fact, is the first one in which the humanitarian and economic objections to blood-sports have been adequately set forth.

 

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

PREFACE. BY BERNARD SHAW

THE CRUELTY OF SPORT. BY GEORGE GREENWOOD, M.P.

SPORT AND AGRICULTURE. BY EDWARD CARPENTER

THE COST OF SPORT. BY MAURICE ADAMS

THE ECONOMICS OF HUNTING. BY W. H. S. MONCK

FACTS ABOUT THE GAME LAWS. BY J. CONNELL

THE DESTRUCTION OF WILD LIFE. BY E. B. LLOYD

THE CALLOUSNESS OF FOX-HUNTING. BY H. B. MARRIOTT WATSON

BIG GAME HUNTING. BY ERNEST BELL

BLOOD-SPORTS AT SCHOOLS. BY AN OLD ETONIAN

FALLACIES OF SPORTSMEN. BY HENRY S. SALT

APPENDIX

BY THE EDITOR

I. SPORT AS A TRAINING FOR WAR

II. “BLOODING”

III. THE HUNTING OF GRAVID ANIMALS

IV. DRAG-HUNT VERSUS STAG-HUNT

V. CLAY PIGEON VERSUS LIVE PIGEON. BY THE REV. J. STRATTON

VI. COURSING

VII. THE GENTLE CRAFT

VIII. SPOILING OTHER PEOPLE’S PLEASURE

INDEX

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