Rock legend Brian May has criticised Prince William and Prince Harry’s hunting trips, likening the ‘sickening’ practice to the slave trade.
Queen guitarist May, 66, told The Sun: ‘It made me feel sick. This is right at the heart of the problem we are looking at in this government.
‘It’s the whole attitude of the privileged classes — you can rescue rhinos and elephants in Africa but kill at will anything you want if you’re rich.’
The animal rights campaigner was referring to the Duke of Cambridge’s wild boar and stag hunt in Spain earlier this month. The royal brothers had been hunting on the private estate of their godfather, the Duke of Westminster.
Just days later William and his father, Prince Charles, launched an appeal to end the poaching and killing of endangered animals which fuel the illegal wildlife trade.
‘It’s an attitude I’m very familiar with as I’m used to talking to people who justify tearing living foxes apart with packs of dogs,’ May continued.
‘It’s not logical, justifiable or humane and is the same as people in the 19th century trying to justify slavery.
‘Such people would insist slaves didn’t feel like they did. Now they’re saying these animals don’t feel like we do so it’s OK to hunt them and do what we want with them. That is an archaic way of thinking and it has to go.’
May is not the only musician to slam the princes for the hunt, with Morrissey calling William a ‘thickwit’ for partaking in ‘sport and slaughter’ much like the poachers who he wants to stop.
