IN her most recent letter to the Evening News (Tuesday, May 1) Anita Knittel tried to blame the spread of foot-and-mouth on hunting.

This must be her most desperate attempt yet - does she feel the need to blame hunting or every problem in the world today?

We are being constantly told by the animal rights lobby that fox hunters should turn to drag hunting.

If following hounds across country spreads disease then drag hunting will do it just the same as fox hunting, only more so, as drag hunting needs a much bigger area of countryside.

Anita Knittel is grasping at straws, as support for the animal rights movement ebbs away. Tony Blair is trying to wriggle out of his promise to ban hunting - in Scotland the chance of a ban is now very unlikely and opinion polls are also showing that the public are in support of letting it continue.

It is very interesting that Ms Knittel should finish her letter with the quote from Oscar Wilde "the unspeakable in pursuit of the uneatable".

I must point out that it is taken from A Woman of No Importance. Need I say more?

H RAY,

Worcester.