I have had this in the drafts folder for three weeks, wondering whether to publish it or not.
Today I see that killing badgers is set to start again, in September. Read about it in The Independent.
Government officials have given the go-ahead for a fresh round of badger culling, starting immediately – against advice from their own scientific chief.
Natural England is believed to have authorised supplementary culls for this year in nine areas – from Derbyshire to Wiltshire – as part of a programme that began in 2013 to curb badger populations in an effort to tackle bovine tuberculosis.
Some comments.
I remember it well. We were living in Devon then and I remember having to cover my toddlers eyes as we drove past a mile long cremation fire where they were using a crane to drop dead cows onto it. The smell was awful
Remember it well lost 475 head of cattle and 1200 sheep a day I will never forget
Remember it well we were on our narrowboat on holiday in Cheshire watching new born lambs in field beside a lock mums were still cleaning them as minutes old , On our way back the next day the field was empty and they had been slaughtered , I broke my heart crying for hours .
I remember it clearly. Where I lived the army were killing sheep in a field a couple of hundred yards from my house. All I could hear was what I presumed were gunshots and sheep bleating. This was after I had come home from work on the bus and passed a farm where they were moving cow carcasses with a digger and dropped one onto a trailer just as we passed. I didn't sleep much that night because I couldn't get the sounds and images out of my head.
Don't think that they won't do it again.
Not only here but it's happening in Canada as well.
400 Ostriches ordered to be killed.
An impassioned plea for help and to “surround” the farm has gone out to the community from the owner of a nearly 400-bird flock of ostriches slated by a federal government order to be killed within the next four days.
They use the word culling. I prefer to call it killing.
Catch ya later. Toodle pip. ilona
The mass slaughter was because of foot and mouth disease (accidentally released from a government lab would you believe!) not tuberculosis.
ReplyDeleteThe problem with the badger cull is that any animals not killed leave the area and if they have the disease they take that with them and therefore spread the problem. It's a no brainer stop the cull and vaccinate both the badgers and cows instead.
Jane
I don’t think they should be vaccinated! For heavens sake we all know what they are doing with vaccinations. It is more project fear and control.
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