Badger Cull Downing Street Petition

The Black Rabbit · #1 (**permalink**) 25-10-2007, 09:09 PM

Anybody who has looked at the evidence and disagrees with the proposed mass cull of badgers in the SW of England which became headline news again this week, PLEASE use the link below to sign a petition for Downing street.

You might remember the older "Black and White" petition. This was somewhat abused and is out of date now.

Anyhoo.... like I said... please visit the new link below and sign.
The petition ends in July 2008 but we need numbers now!

Many thanks people.

LINK:
Petition to: stop the cull of badgers in the UK and continue research into the real cause of Bovine TB.

jdurbo · #2 (**permalink**) 25-10-2007, 09:14 PM

Done

jen xxx

mh68 · #3 (**permalink**) 25-10-2007, 09:16 PM

Signed it, thanks for posting the link

Mark H

The Black Rabbit · #4 (**permalink**) 25-10-2007, 09:18 PM

Thanks Jen and Mark.
Keep 'em coming people!

paulchandler6 · #5 (**permalink**) 25-10-2007, 09:20 PM

Also done.

Paul

Jez · #6 (**permalink**) 25-10-2007, 09:32 PM

I've signed it because downing street need to feel it.

The Black Rabbit · #7 (**permalink**) 25-10-2007, 09:33 PM

Thanks Paul and Jez!

stripee · #8 (**permalink**) 25-10-2007, 10:11 PM

Have signed too

The Black Rabbit · #9 (**permalink**) 25-10-2007, 11:48 PM

Thanks stripee.

Billy Wobble Dagger · #10 (**permalink**) 26-10-2007, 09:35 AM

Signed and the link sent to everyone in my address book.

BWD

The Black Rabbit · #11 (**permalink**) 26-10-2007, 09:36 AM

Good stuff BWD.
Many thanks.

Barry3 · #12 (**permalink**) 26-10-2007, 10:16 AM

signed can you all make your local badger protection groups aware of petition please
Barry

PMG · #13 (**permalink**) 26-10-2007, 11:47 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jez

I've signed it because downing street need to feel it.

Signed it a while ago and had another look today (26 Oct 07) and it says there are only 303 signatures

........... something needs to be done........ Downing St will confidently be able to ignore 303 folks no problem........

Pauline

The Black Rabbit · #14 (**permalink**) 26-10-2007, 12:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by PMG

Signed it a while ago and had another look today (26 Oct 07) and it says there are only 303 signatures

........... something needs to be done........ Downing St will confidently be able to ignore 303 folks no problem........

Pauline

I agree Pauline. I don't think it's been publicised that well. As Barry said, involve your local badger groups or let them know.
Hey, it may well be futile. We can but try...

aestarte · #15 (**permalink**) 26-10-2007, 12:33 PM

I signed it. I was actually waiting for a petition to come up so thanks for posting the link. As soon as I saw it on the news I was on my soapbox. This is the 21st century right??!! Thought people would have learned by now. Oh well!!!! Fi. X X X X

naturelover · #16 (**permalink**) 26-10-2007, 05:29 PM

i have signed.

galanthus · #17 (**permalink**) 26-10-2007, 10:53 PM

Just did it. Will forward onto work and send it around there too on Monday.

animalb · #18 (**permalink**) 28-10-2007, 03:32 PM

Thanks I've Signed and I've passed on link via email to friends.

Dan Salter · #19 (**permalink**) 28-10-2007, 03:55 PM

I haven't signed yet as i want to read up a bit more on the argument and make sure I'm confident that the cull is a bad move...i get conflicting stories from people around me...some saying the scientists are right and badgers carry/ spread the tb...others saying there is no scientific proof. I suspect i will end up signing though although i also am wary of petitions and wonder if they ever actually achieve anything or do any good...the amount of petitions i have signed or campaigned for or taken part in going back to school days and pretty much none of them made any difference or stopped whatever it was we were trying to stop.....am i being sceptical?...sorry.

Rats · #20 (**permalink**) 28-10-2007, 08:34 PM

Signed and also sent on behalf of a few friends.

FreckledElm · #21 (**permalink**) 31-10-2007, 12:16 AM

done!

It's all about money, much cheaper to destroy life. Cattle, sheep,pigs,poultry et al. Farmers love to demonise the badger, old brock is very convenient.

CurreHound · #22 (**permalink**) 31-10-2007, 06:56 AM

I have grave misgivings about the bager cull and have written with a farmer and a vet to an MP about it.
There is absolutly no doubt in my mind that TB is cross species .

if it wer being transferd to houshold pets by rats there would be a massacre.
Indeed there alrady is a massacre of rats.
Ah but thy have ugly tails don't thy silly me nor cute lik badgrs.

however I can assure you there is NOTHING cute abut a grumpy sick TB infctd badger.

Let the farmers kill them when they see it. Cull them in that particular area.

A mass cull is unecessarry and indiscrimniate in my opinion. However, to sign the petition would be to fly in the face of reason.

It is just as important for the badgers as the cattle to bring this epidemic to a halt. But I agree a mass cull is not the way. If a farmer sees it, the governemnt should respond just there and nearby. A further zone could be stablished to take samle sfrom badgrs. Wherever it is found they must be culled.

Yes you are correct in some ways Freckled Elm. It is all about money. But I don't know any farmers who have made any in the last ten years.

The money comes in here.
It would be possible at massive cost to find a solution to this scientifically.

But then a society that would rather blame smoking than find the cure for lung cancer because it will cost too much to vaccinate 70 million people against lung HPV is not going to spend any money on vaccinating badgers. The vaccination against cervical HPV for 13 and 14 year old girls will cost ?350 a head and they don't know how to pay for that.

But if something is not done to halt the spread; then we will see the end of badgers in the UK. But mass culls are indiscriminate and will fail to tackle the problem.

mrs fish · #23 (**permalink**) 31-10-2007, 07:22 AM

Signed

lizzy · #24 (**permalink**) 31-10-2007, 07:36 AM

Signed and appreciated, passed onto many others, Lizzy

CurreHound · #25 (**permalink**) 31-10-2007, 07:38 AM

Unless of course we go the irish route and wipe then completly out in a huge area. yes that worked in ireland. Sad though. Thing is because of that DEFRA have put pressure on the NFU to back this solution.

It's a bit like nuking London to stop the spread of HIV there.

Thing is we have to start thinking outside the box on this one. Seems to me the resistance of some badgers to the disease has a key. So rather than the enemy, they may actually present a solution if we funded research on it.

Unless we kill every badger in the west country this cull will have no effect; so its also in the long term a false economy.

Indeed localized badger culls are often rejected bcause it is alleged that it actually increases the rate of infection some how. Wouldn't be because DEFRA are so useless at it would it? Because if that is so, then this will definitely not work.

But doing nothing is not an option so rather than a petition alternative strategy needs to be put forward. If there were a vaccine, how would it be delivered? It isn't so simple. But neither is this cull.