PRACTICAL EFFECTS Severe unemployment of horses and ponies Significant damage to the UK and Irish horse industries Sales of horse food, bedding, saddlery, veterinary products, horse  transport and transporting etc.will be significantly reduced. Destruction of a large number of Foxhounds and loss of bloodlines. Increased total fox deaths from shooting with little regard for the interests of the fox species. JOB LOSSES Employment of grooms, vets, farriers, transport drivers etc. will be  significantly reduced. Significant damage to the transport, leisure and manufacturing industries. POLITICAL & CULTURAL Centuries of Rural Tradition will vanish. The countryside and the Country Way of Life will be much the poorer, both economically and socially A highly undesirable state of "dynamic tension" in the UK  between those imbued with our "Urban Sub-Culture" and those with our "Country  Way of Life (Rural Sub-Culture)". Increased intolerance between cultures.

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