Badger cull now planned for England

[Farplace]

Does anyone wonder if it is the cattle that are giving the badgers TB?

[artdemole]

What about government cutbacks.They ought to put this in their review and cancel it Permanent!!!!

[Cotham Marble]

Originally Posted by RobinP

More bad news for brock and friends...

BBC News - Badger cull plans for England being unveiled

Let's just hope there is a successful legal challenge against this.

Robin

Anyone who is concerned about this should start writing to their MPs now. The situation in the Westminster Parliament is very different to that in Cardiff Bay and many Westminster MPs outside the coalition inner core are decidedly queasy about their futures because of the uncertainty about the durability of the coalition. Of course there will dead head pro farming kill it whatever the cost Shire Tories and a few spavined Libs and Labs who will not stand up to the 'death to badgers' TB final solution camaign - but many MPs are probably eminently 'persuadeable' by motivated voters.

CM

[Kayleigh]

I would support a boycott of beef but one person would not do much on their own..
If everyone stopped eating beef the farmers would have to find another root like looking to inoculate the animals instead of killing our badgers..
Hit them where it hurts in the pocket..

[Cotham Marble]

Originally Posted by Kayleigh

I would support a boycott of beef but one person would not do much on their own..
If everyone stopped eating beef the farmers would have to find another root like looking to inoculate the animals instead of killing our badgers..
Hit them where it hurts in the pocket..

Good principle but ..... the impetus for the cull is coming from Dairy Farmers !

The current proposals for 'licencing' - which will allow farmers to trap and shoot on their own land (with only minimal supervision !!!) does open up the possibility of having meat and milk from Badger friendly farms (where either no action is taken or vaccination is used as an alternative to killing) which in turn could be used to place pressure on the Supermarkets to stock only products from Badger friendly sources.

CM

[stripee]

http://www.defra.gov.uk/corporate/co...trol-measures/

Shooting free running badgers is in the proposals, which could mean wounding badgers - if they come out of their setts at all if they can smell someone hanging about...

Apart from writing to MPs, lobbying supermarkets etc, FILL IN THE CONSULTATION (sorry for caps!). The link is above. In Wales, the unions had an easy response form on their websites, and handed out copies of the consultation at all the agricultural shows, this resulted in a disproportionate standardised response to the consultation which was taken into account.
Do you think killing badgers is a good idea - Yes please!

Members of the public largely had little idea of the consultation or where to find it on the Welsh Assembly website.

Fill in the consultation, send it to all friends, keep the link alive on responses. This way the Government has to take opinions into account. If there are questions, I expect there are people on WAB who can help!

[Dogghound]

Originally Posted by Farplace

Does anyone wonder if it is the cattle that are giving the badgers TB?

Its is

[Burko]

Originally Posted by Dogghound

Its is

Problem is that cows are restricted by field boundaries, badgers aren't.

[Dogghound]

Originally Posted by Burko

Problem is that cows are restricted by field boundaries, badgers aren't.

But badgers arnt transported around the country, cows are.

[Burko]

Originally Posted by Dogghound

But badgers arnt transported around the country, cows are.

Wouldn't it be bad practise to transport TB infected cattle?