Deal With IT's Secretary Victoria Nicholls writes a regular column in the East Kent Mercury:It is heartbreaking to see that our ‘greenest government
ever’ is once again denying the science that has been put before it and is
going ahead with killing one of the nation’s favourite animals in an
ill-advised badger cull.
TB was first discovered in badgers in the early 1970s and
since then we have systematically been killing them in various horrible ways
until the 10 year-long ‘Randomised Badger Culling Trial’ resulted in a 300 page
report that concluded that ‘badger culling can make no meaningful contribution
to the control of TB in cattle’. We were all delighted when the government at
the time announced that there would be no more culling of badgers.
The proposed killing of 130,000 badgers over a number of
years will result in a 30% reduction in the badger population nationally and up
to a 50% reduction in the South West. Complex family groups which have been
formed over generations will be disrupted and many individual badgers which
have been injured will die slow and painful deaths.
And for what? The
problem of TB in cattle will not be addressed until the dairy industry looks to
the way it farms. Ever more intensive methods of producing milk without thought
for animal welfare must be considered to be one of the main reasons that TB
continues to be the scourge it is.
Please help the campaign against this badger cull by
visiting www.teambadger.org and only
buy your milk from happy cows which are not intensely farmed.
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