An excellent letter sent to the Yorkshire Post ... Shame over cost in lives of badger cull Published on the 03 September 2013 08:47 From: Mrs Jayne Payne, Bickley, Langdale End, Scarborough. I FIND it ironic that the British people, who are known in the main to be animal lovers, are spending their Friday evenings watching the secret lives of badgers and other burrowing wildlife in a superb BBC2 three- part production. Meanwhile this Government is hell-bent on destroying 70 per cent of an unknown number of badgers in bTB hotspot areas with the full knowledge that this slaughter will only achieve a maximum of 16 per cent reduction in the cases of Bovine (not badger) TB over nine years of killing thousands of badgers. What about the other 84 per cent? Having promised a cull of badgers in both parties’ manifestos, they have to be seen to be doing something. This something will injure and maim mostly healthy badgers due to any sick animals having been kicked out of the sett. They can be sick with Parva, Mange or bTb, but the ones at the bait areas will be healthy and many will be this year’s cubs. No account will be taken of those who will be injured; they will make their way back to their setts and die a lingering painful death. There is never a mention of the thousands of cattle slaughtered prematurely due to mastitis, lameness, infertility or pure exhaustion from over milking; all these figures are swept under the NFU/Defra thick plush carpets. Farmers and landowners have been brainwashed into believing that killing badgers will solve the problem of bTB. Do they read about the rogue farmers swapping ear tags to prevent a high yielder from being slaughtered too early due to infection? Do they not know of rogue farmers illegally selling cattle without testing first? Do they not know of the bTB test only being 84 per cent accurate and the number of cattle found at the abattoirs infected although tested? Read the science, farmers, and wake up to reality; do not believe the ill-informed propaganda fed to you. Over 30 top European scientists have shown their outrage at this proposed slaughter of our wildlife but David Cameron, Nick Clegg and Owen Paterson have to show the farming community they mean business, whatever turmoil they will create in the shooting areas. The activists are ready and I am very afraid someone will be badly injured. Were I not arthritic and past my prime, believe me, I would be down there among them. I am ashamed to be British as our Government shows disregard for the truth, and knows it is carrying out this atrocity purely for voting gain and money. Shame on them; they will never gain my vote.
Posted on: Wed, 04 Sep 2013 17:03:22 +0000
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