Humane Errors It is said, in an excellent little pamphlet
prodticed by U.F.A.W. (The Universities' Federation for Animal Welfare), that the recent Anti-Blood Sports Bill increased the membership of the British Field Sports Society from 72,000 to 101,0001 And U.FA.W., as usual, is to be commended for the truth and common sense of its attitude. Nothing has done so much harm to the humanitarian cause as the inaccuracies fostered by excess of sentimentality. U.F.A.W. is a scientific society, and for that reason has exercised strong influence on Ministries. The Ministry of Agriculture, for example, is persuaded that it has no legal powers to " make orders based on humanitarian grounds," but it may and will make orders on scientific grounds, having a humanitarian effett. The point is of importance to all humanitarian reformers.
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