Yesterday the government confirmed they are going ahead with the badger cull and I'm so upset, not least because I'm vegan!
The argument is that the farmers believe badgers are infecting their cattle with TB. The government funded a 10 year study into whether a cull would stop the spread of TB where 11,000 badgers were killed to investigate this. The recommendation from this study was that this was not going to be a very effective method of managing the disease, but the government ignored this advice and decided to go ahead with the cull.
It just seems to me that we are intensively farming cows, and bad things are happening as a result, and the money-driven answer to this is to just kill the animals which aren't being profited from in an attempt to keep the money flowing. If things are going wrong, why aren't they looking into their farming techniques? Farming less cows potentially? The general thinking seems to be "we need to support the poor farmers because they might not make enough money from farming cattle" and not "we need to protect our wildlife, we do enough damage as it is" What have the badgers done wrong?!
Oh, and also the study found that when a badger set is under threat (ie when people start shooting badgers) the whole set disperses so this could actually make the problem worse.
RSPCA info here: http://t.co/j1cA179
If some people would sign League Against Cruel Sports petition I'd be really grateful.
LACS Petition:http://t.co/IZjbBYm
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