The article touches on what I don't like about fox hunting, the class and aspect the ceremony -- which is inseparable from the class aspect, because if just anyone could do it, it wouldn't be worth celebrating.
Oscar Wilde said it best, "The unspeakable in pursuit of the inedible."
Unlike feral pigs in the U.S., the red fox is native to Great Britain, so arguably has more right to be there than humans or their chickens.
Re: Fox hunting
1"To initiate a war of aggression...is the supreme international crime" - Nuremberg prosecutor Robert Jackson, 1946