FOLLOWING my recent letter (Shocking comments about bull-run death, August 3) and other postings made on their website, the League Against Cruel Sports has put out a statement condemning the gory death wishes expressed by many of their supporters.

I would like to express my gratitude to them for doing this. They should be respected for standing up against the tide.

It has to be said, however, that any review of the online statements made by anti-hunting activists paints a very unpleasant picture of some of these people.

A recurrent theme on some of these sites is to equate people who support country sports with child abusers and to declare them as 'sub-human'.

What is interesting is how statements by celebrities and organisations such as the league feed into the febrile minds of these people.

In this case it should be noted that the pop singer Morrissey, who they lionise, declared the Norway killings were not as bad as factory farming, and the league has stated that people who involve their children in country sports are child abusers.

The league's new chief executive Joe Duckworth has recently sent a round robin letter to the press claiming they 'know' hunts are breaking the law. In fact, in spite of extensive monitoring, of the 200 or so prosecutions a tiny proportion have been against hunts. This is surely powerful evidence that they are not.

Giles Bradshaw

Rose Ash