Killing for Sport, Henry S. Salt (Editor), G. Bernard Shaw (Preface)

Killing for Sport

Various Writers, Henry S. Salt (Editor), George Bernard Shaw (Preface)

  • Edition: First Edition
  • Publisher: George Bell & Sons Ltd., London
  • Published: 1914
  • Length: 186
  • Format: Paperback
  • Reprints: 1915 (Hardback) and 1917 (Hardback)

Summary

The original print was the “War-Time Edition”.

Killing for Sport is a collection of anti-hunting essays edited by the leading vegetarian and animal rights author Henry Salt, with a preface by his friend, fellow vegetarian and committed opponent to blood-sports, George Bernard Shaw, and including an essay by like-minded socialist thinker, poet and early gay rights activist Edward Carpenter.

Published under the auspices of Salt’s Humanitarian League, the collection presents itself as the first work to consider both the “humanitarian and economic objections to blood-sports”, as well as encompassing a wider range of standpoints than ever before offered. Covers fox-hunting, hunting of carted deer, bloodsports at school, rabbit coursing, pigeon shooting, trapping, and the game laws.

This “war-time” edition in card wrappers forms the true first edition, preceding the hardcover editions of 1915 and 1917. An important pioneering philosophical and practical work by a group of notable author-activists, elucidating the various key objections to blood-sports and aiming to reform both legislation and public opinion.

Content

  • Preface. By George Bernard Shaw
  • The Cruelty of Sport. By George Greenwood (1-33)
  • Sport and Agriculture. By Edward Carpenter (33-44)
  • The Cost of Sport. By Maurice Adams (45-59)
  • The Economics of Hunting. By W. H. S. Monck (60-8)
  • Facts About The Game Laws. By J. Connell (69-84)
  • The Destruction of Wild Life. By E. B. Lloyd (85-94)
  • The Callousness of Fox-Hunting. By H .B. M. Watson (95-100)
  • Big Game Hunting. By Ernest Bell (101-115)
  • Blood Sports at Schools. By an Old Etonian (Henry S. Salt) (116-129)
  • Fallacies of Sportsmen. By Henry S. Salt (130-148)
  • Appendix. By Henry S. Salt (149-186)
  • Sport as a Training for War
  • "Blooding"
  • The Hunting of Gravid Animals
  • Drag-Hunt versus Stag-Hunt
  • Clay Pigeon Shooting versus Live Pigeon. By the Rev. J. Stratton
  • Coursing
  • The Gentle Crafter
  • Spoiling Other People's Pleasure

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