[honeybee]

I will say that when it comes to hunting etc, a lot of people who feel strongly against it probably eat battery hen eggs and meat from intensively reared animals without thinking about it. It's the fact that hunting is/was a sport enjoyed by a minority and the goal was to kill an animal for no real reason that upset people and it became very high profile due to the change of law/media etc. I think that the proletariat / general public get upset about anything if it's well publiscised / campaigned.