Nearly 11,000 badgers killed this year, with more roll outs proposed for next year, and a continuation of the ones that should have ended this year after 4 years of badger killing already. Most of the West Country will be shooting a supposedly ‘protected species’ next year, with appalling long term ecological consequences. We shall loose our ground nesting song birds and coastal regions will loose their wading birds.
The government know this as they wrote the report flagging up this outcome, but they simply don’t care. We are watching a slow ecocide happening just for the Tories to keep getting votes from the hunting lobby, under the excuse of bTB ‘control’, and which they know won’t work. Meanwhile human communities will be split in two by this issue, and West Country tourism will be hit hard. Welcome to 21st century Britain, we kill badgers for fun and have hundreds of gun men loose in the British countryside.
If any of this appalls you, please fill in the ‘Public Consultation’ the government put out every year to be seen to be acting ‘democratically’, but which they don’t tell the public about. Then get everyone you know to fill it in too… it’s only open for a short while.
Thanks: https://consult.defra.gov.uk/bovine-tb/supplementary-badger-disease-control/
