TOM Fell of the Countryside Alliance claims that 'Hunting is fully open and accountable' and invites us along to National Newcomers Week to reach our own conclusions (LET, August 12).
As a Hunt Monitor working with Protect Our Wild Animals (POWA), I can tell your readers that hunters and their supporters make it as difficult as possible for us to film the awful reality of hunting.
They try to prevent us from filming anything they do not wish the public to see.
Our view is blocked and we have to cope with intimidation and personal insults.
All this, in an attempt to stop us collecting the evidence to put before Parliament, the media and to the public so they can indeed make up their own minds.
If hunting is to be open and accountable, I challenge the CA to let hunt monitors attend any hunt and allow us to inspect and film the corpses of foxes.
Allow us on to private property to witness and film dig outs and flushing to hounds and to allow us to film, what I consider to be one of the most loathsome practices, euphemistically called autumn hunting but which in reality is the savaging of cubs still partially dependent on their mothers.
JUDY GILBERT, POWA Hunt Monitor, Buckinghamshire.
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