Residents of Dorset can soon once again live peacefully and at ease knowing that the slaughter of badgers is now stopping. Hundreds of badgers will have been slaughtered without mercy in Dorset , backed by the government and defended by the NFU.
The NFU claims that slaughtering badgers is the only way to treat TB in cattle.
The NFU are wrong. The only way to treat TB in cattle is to not over breed or exploit cattle.
But lets look at what else the NFU defends. It defends the 350 slaughter houses that exist in Britain today which processes the deaths of 9 million pigs, 15 million sheep, over 2 million cattle. The human mind is simply not capable of grasping the scale of the suffering that goes on to these animals behind closed doors.
The NFU also defends the taking of calves away from their mother to be shot in their first day of life and it also defends using and exploiting that cow for milk until the cow can no longer manage and collapses in exhaustion. It also defends the factory farming of cattle whereby cows never step onto green grass and are sat in small compartments day after day over feeding until they are fat enough to be killed.
Many activists and volunteers however have spent night and day trying to save our badgers. Many cages have been found and destroyed and some badgers have been released. The cull zone in Dorset is vast and covers acres of woods and land but where the activists have got to the badgers have been saved.
It seriously is time to think more about the production of our food and what suffering may lie behind what falls on our supermarket shelves. It is time to take a stand against organizations who put money and profit before our environment and health. Would you seriously want to eat beef that is possibly contaminated by TB?
Tens and thousands of of diseased cattle, slaughetered after testing positive for bovine tuberculosis are being sold for human consumption by DEFRA, the food and farming ministry. DEFRA maintain that the risk of contracting TB from eating TB ridden meat is low. Once the TB legions are cut out from the meat you wouldnt even know the cow suffered from TB.
The only way to stop the badger cull in Dorset is to not buy the produce and to eat vegan food.
Kate Bradley
