"But we're totally opposed - as are the vast majority of the people in this country - to anybody who's going out there, deliberately, to abuse animals and to tear them to shreds, " he told the BBC.

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That given the slightest change in circumstances, we would all, sooner or later, tear each other to shreds.

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