We headed to the Three Counties Showground today for a little demo alongside Worcester Vegans & Veggies. We had the usual clever comments, usually spoken quickly just before scuttling across the road away from us, like ‘freak’ and ‘obnoxious scumbags’ as well as the odd mature argument like putting a middle finger up at us which is always amusing. We also had a number of anti-cull and anti-hunt people coming up to us to have a quick chat as well as being interviewed for Midlands Today, although we didn’t appear on the show in the end.

Inside the fair, we spoke to Matthew Price at the NFU stand (briefly as he apparently didn’t want to stick around long) who is also associated with the South Herefordshire Hunt. He was having a chat with farmer David Barton, who stuck around for a somewhat more mature discussion about tuberculosis and the badger cull and we also got to meet Alex Stevens who is the NFU Regional Policy Manager for the South West. It was a really good chat, thanks Alex for not running away from us too!

On top of this we got to meet the North Ledbury hounds and the Severn Vale beagles and well as being stared out of the ‘Herefordshire hunts’ exhibition by some local hunt supporters. The hound parade was a little mediocre to be honest… apparently young boys don’t want to get involved in hunting once they get to that age when pretty young girls are more interesting to look at! It was like watching 2 awkward older men talk awkwardly to each other for 10 minutes. Probably because that was what it was. But with microphones.

Shame we didn’t get to meet Princess Anne but all in all a very good day! Back in the fields again very soon. Help us get out there if you can – lots of surveying and sett-checking to do – the cull could start anytime:
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