GOVERNMENT APPROVES BADGER CULL IN SOP TO THE NFU ,THE ROYALS AND COUNTRY LAND AND BUSINESS ASSOCIATION

The news article from the Independent newspaper (11/12/05 - see below), confirms the worst fears of those of us in the animal welfare movement, that DEFRA Ministers have given the farming lobby the green light to slaughter badgers.

Badgers have for years been the scapegoat for TB in cattle, despite no proof.

The farming lobby will continue to support the movement of infected cattle around the country, a key indicator of the cause of TB in cattle herds, whilst the beautiful badger, part of our wildlife heritage, is slaughtered to appease the NFU and Prince Charles.

The farming lobby is once again being allowed to get away with murder by DEFRA.

read the Independent article

Please protest in the strongest possible terms to:

Ben Bradshaw MP, Minister of State
House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA
Email: bradshawb@parliament.uk

Tony Blair, Prime Minister,
10 Downing Street, London, SW1A 2AA
Email here http://www.number-10.gov.uk/output/Page821.asp

SOME POINTS FOR YOUR LETTER/ E MAIL:

An inhumane and publicly unacceptable badger control culling policy based on weak or non-existent science, with no demonstrable benefits, has no place in an overall strategy to reduce the incidence of bTB in cattle.

Recent studies (Randomised Badger Culling Trial & Defra's badger RTA survey) have revealed the relatively low numbers of infected badgers.

Focusing on badgers encourages farmers to believe that cattle-to-cattle transmission is unimportant.

PLEASE ALSO WRITE/ E MAIL THE LOCAL AND NATIONAL MEDIA.

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