Hunters from Northumberland have made a film to promote their campaign, which will premiere in Ashington this week.
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00:00We had very little future to look forward to.
00:03Everybody in the village worked at the pit.
00:05You can't get any more working class than a miner.
00:08That's probably the shittiest job on the planet, like.
00:12Everybody in Ashton had a little chass.
00:14And everybody used to go out, catch rabbits, catch deer.
00:18This was the way of life.
00:19It was all I did.
00:21You just watch the dog, love him, do what it loves to do.
00:24I get little chills thinking about it.
00:27We haven't got anything like that now.
00:29It's all just gone.
00:30What do you think about this move down the bend?
00:32I think it's a disgrace.
00:33Which will have a massive effect on working class men
00:36who have a passion and a history of going out and catching rabbits for the pot.
00:40There's more working class people who've got dogs
00:42than there is packs of hounds.
00:44It's in their nature.
00:45That Chris Patton, that's carbon neutral, isn't it?
00:47It's very easy for a city-dwelling ecologist to say,
00:51I hate hunting.
00:53But that's the view from the distance.
00:59[♪upbeat music playing♪♪.