Fox Hunting Group Believes it ‘Unequivocally’ Qualifies as Protected Minority Group

Ed Swales suggested Hunting groups face “horrendous problems” and that some animal rights groups qualify as “extremists” and should be on the “watch list of MI5”

Ahunting lobby group claims fox hunters meet the criteria for an ethnic minority and deserve protection under equality laws, something a legal expert has said it will be “extremely unlikely” to succeed with.
Ed Swales, chairman and founder of the Hunting Kind, made the claim to an audience at Game Fair 2024, a hunting event, in Warwickshire, that was held from July 25 to 27. A video of a sit-down interview with Swales and his Hunting Kind colleague, Ronan Brown, was uploaded to Field Sports’ YouTube channel on 14 August and, as of Thursday, has been viewed over 1,200 times. While being interviewed by Charlie Jacoby, Swales claimed a top human rights lawyer – who he did not name – has agreed “unequivocally” that hunters qualify as a “protected minority group” under the Equality Act 2010. “The qualifications of an ethnic group, there are five of them, and we hit every one straight in the bullseye,” Swales claimed, before explaining: “The work we’ve been doing is in the legal space under the Equality Act 2010. And no work has been done to protect hunting or the minority group of people that partake in it like us since that Act has been created.” The 55-year-old former army captain says he has spent three years gathering evidence to argue that people who are pro-hunting deserve protection. He has also suggested that hunters could be given “intangible cultural heritage” status by UNESCO based on recognition of the community’s spoken word and oral tradition, The Telegraph reported last week. “We’re actually as much, if not more, ‘animal people’ than the animal rights activists,” he told the publication, adding: “We live it, eat it, breathe it and sleep it – it’s our life. It’s not just some sort of weird hobby.”

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