Badger Cull

This is a massively controvertial and emotive subject that needs your attention.

Here is a link to my previous blog post about the Badger Cull.  Oppose the Badger Cull

I want to direct you yet again to the Petition to oppose the Imminent Badger Cull.  This evening there was a piece on the popular BBC programme Country File about the cull.  There was an interview with the National Farmers Union President Peter Kendall who seems unrepentant and is hell bent on the cull, refusing to contemplate vaccination.  Could this be that it might cost more money than the cull?  There was also an interview with one of he marksmen who said how he had been on an intensive course to learn about the  cull and then unbelievably said without irony, it had lasted all day.  I don't call that a course!  One days training is not a course when we are talking about the survival of a species. 

Just another point of view, but if it is called  Bovine TB then does that not imply that it is a disease of cattle and it's the cattle that have spread it to the Badgers.  The badgers were the original inhabitants of the English countryside, cattle came later and they have infected the Badgers. Eradicate the cattle and then there will not be a problem. Obviously thats not going to happen. But if you want to keep your cattle amongst the Badgers then you can't complain if the  cattle continue to be re-infected with the disease that they were responsible for bringing in to the countryside in the first instance.  

My objection is it's the thin edge of the wedge. Badgers are first. Next it will be Peregrine Falcons because they take racing pigeons.  After that Buzzards because they take pheasant poults. Its already been mooted that Sparrowhawks should be killed because they take songbirds, just where is it due to end? Fishermen can already under license kill Cormorants and Goosanders and horror of horrors, they also want to shoot Otters and I have spoken to the anglers in Exeter Angling Shop who tell me without remorse or sentiment that they would glady kill Otters if they could find them to shoot.

Further, I am pretty confident when I say if we had a strong national voice speaking out for mamals in the same way that the RSPB speaks for birds, then the Badger cull would not be taking place.  Therefore it is imperative that you sign the petition here .  THE PETITION  many more signatures are required so please, please sign.