The badger cull is one of Britains worst social injustices. Btb in cattle is dressed up by the ruling classes as being an essential and most vital problem that needs billions of pounds in funding. We can all see the connection. It would not shock me if a further billion would be directed to aid the absolute essential need to kill foxes because the Aristocrats simply could not survive without their human rights to kill for pleasure.
The badger cull does not address our needs in society or move this country into a better world and it also does not address the real problem.
It has been well documented that there is not one single bit of evidence that this badger cull actually works yet the government ploughs on regardless in its relentless campaign that cattle to cattle disease is of national life saving importance.
Aside from the badger cull being inhumane, ineffective and barbaric it is also a symptom of a corrupt system whereby billions of pounds are directed towards landowners and towards those who have created their own problem, who refuse to take accountability for their own farms. and lives.
There has been big rise in rough sleepers since this badger cull was introduced The criteria needed to be met in order to get housing assistance from the council is even harder to meet as the stock of council houses is not being replenished. Simply being homeless will not qualify you for housing assistance, there is now many other hoops a person must go through in order to meet the requirement for assistance. A similar ruthless approach is also taken towards sick and disabled people if you can lift a mug to drink a cup of tea you are seen as fit to work regardless of the fact that you have no legs or eyes.
But uncanny its all so different when it comes to landowners who actually have a choice in what to grow or farm. Landowners do not receive an equally rigorous approach, if Atos should assess the need for a badger cull it would be denied.
People are not being housed because the streets are seen as good enough to sleep on, old people are spending days without care in their own homes as there is always the radio to keep you company after all but when it comes to the spurious and slight chance that a badger might be infecting a cow with a disease then suddenly billions of pounds are found and let’s conveniently turn a blind eye to the squalor and decay that most cows are being kept in.
The badger cull is a corrupt, wasteful and inexcusable misdirection of public funds, it also misdirects people’s time, emotion and energy. Thousands of people have now started to devote their lives to stopping the badger cull when they could be have been investing in their own lives and in helping others.
When thousands of people are rough sleeping in the UK and 40% of households are reported to be below acceptable condition to live in the Tory government decide to ignore these pressing matters and embark on an unbelievable quest to make us believe that eating beef is essential and must be protected at any cost and at any price. in order to protest against this unscientific and barbaric expensive policy we have all had to become experts on animal welfare and farming issues.
I have not stepped foot onto a farm before but I can now tell you the ins and outs of the bio security measures that should be in place, I can tell you the history of badger persecution in this country and have become an expert in the hunting act 2004. How has this ludicrous situation come about and why has the minority landowning farming community attracted such special and bias treatment- placed over the basic and essential human rights of others?
It wont be long before the badger activist camps will also be housing homeless people in return for some badger protection work.
Is it right though that a badger cull should not only be so heavily funded but has been allowed to pull at the heart strings of so many of us animal lovers? It has compelled people to act and to leave their families and homes in order to patrol the fields and to possibly face a farmer with a gun in his hands.
The government continues to go to absurd lengths in order to keep a certain type of food production on our shelves which we could all manage without.
It is quite clearly not just about badgers but about a continuing bias coming from Parliament that favours wealthy landowners. Serious cases of animal abuse are also not getting prosecuted because of their connections. The recent case of the South Hereford Hunt being filmed throwing live cubs to hounds after ripping them from their earths and keeping them in confined cages for days is now being referred to as “complex”.
The Police are now routinely using the words “complex” when it involves hunting issues. Its complexity quite clearly comes from the bias not from the crime itself which is usually filmed and shared widely on social media and through the news but from who is perpetrating the crime.
This country is hurtling towards a more segregated social divide. If you took the time to help out with the Stop The Cull Movement you will be seeing this for yourself. Acres of land, beautiful rambling farmhouses and fields roaming with aristocratic red coats and billions of pounds of public money shooting towards it all.
Kate Bradley
