Julian Cope presents Head Heritage

I disagree. On a site like this with a predominantly liberal, eco-friendly slant, perhaps we all hate it and think it should stop, but in my experience the vast majority of people out there couldn't care less. Even amongst people I know whose views are to the left of Tony Benn on most other issues still think animal suffering is a frivolous subject which only mollycoddled do-gooders can afford to give a damn about.

I've lost count of the number of times I've tried to argue otherwise even with people whose views I respect on just about every other point on the scale. A former bass player friend whose acquaintance I have happily let slip - mainly because he's now earning shitloads and has become, quite frankly, a yuppie bore - has just taken up fox-hunting, for fecks' sake. And we're talking about someone who recycles, doesn't vote Tory, shares the same musical tastes (ie prog rock) as a good deal of the folk over on Unsung - not some Telehgraph-reading, Chardonnet-swilling, hooray-harry aristo thug.

Surely saying that you would be fairly hard pressed to find someone that doesn't object to vivsection, and yet it is allowed to continue through public apathy is a self-contradictory argument? If people really cared enough about it, it wouldn't be allowed to happen - end of story.