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Cara's avatar

I recently came across this in the news: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/sep/04/labour-badger-cull-coronavirus-vaccine-report

It greatly angered me as 1. Labour can simply stop the "INEFFECTIVE" "cull" right now and roll out vaccinations and better testing requirements instead and 2. Something I would like to ask that "Godfrey", if badgers did spread it, which, apart from the uneducated "Charles Godfrey", we all know that they don't, then how is it that Scotland has both badgers and cows and is Bovine TB Free yet they don't "cull" badgers?!! Case in point!!

David Elliott's avatar

The people who just love killing animals are clearly still in charge. It’s the same old ‘colonialist’ attitude that has prevailed since our empire was established in the 19th century and suddenly the ‘manifest destiny’ of the brutish and entitled was ‘given its head’ so it could go off and blow the head off as much wildlife as it liked.

This attitude still prevails within the hunting & shooting ‘community’ and it drives the Establishment ‘in the wild’ in England. And whilst this attitude prevails there will always be an ‘official’ excuse for the butchery to go on.

Eamonn Harvey's avatar

Truly sickening and unforgivable! It is what Dr.Brian May has been saying for ages.I can just hear the smart guffaws! 'What would he know ! he's just some jumped up rock star with a silly hair do

with nothing else to do' clearly a lot more than so called scientists and their ,erm, 'advisors'

Vanessa's avatar

Will Labour have the b***s to stop this travesty now? Of course not!

Rogerindsell's avatar

I feel especially strongly about this it's so disgraceful it stacks up like a deck of cards all the broken promises by this government I feel for these poor creatures after all they are sentient living beings and have a right to live and all this absolute rubbish about them spreading bovine tb it's been known for a long time that it's untrue I don't know where this government get off allowing this and the people who do the culling should be ashamed of themselves it's inhuman and I just hope with this petition of ours being heard in government we get somewhere I have emailed my MP and I've done so on many occasions on this subject outside of this group and all I've got back are half hearted promises and waffle I'm hoping for better let's wait and see

Lorna Lake's avatar

How many of us have said this all along?? Dr Brian May has said this all along. So why were the facts ignored .. who made the most money from this policy?? Pharmaceutical companies?