Badger Cull
People go to prison in the UK for disturbing Badgers, but the British Government is allowed to kill them in order to control bovine TB, even when there is no evidence to suggest it will do any good and some to suggest it will be counterproductive.
This makes no sense whatsoever, but it in nevertheless true.
The Government’s Chief Scientific Advisor, Sir David King, suggests a cull of badgers in England should be undertaken in order to control bovine TB in cattle.
This advice goes against the conclusions of the Government appointed Independent Scientific Group on cattle TB, published in June, after a ten-year study. Apparently, when they culled badgers in Irish Republic bovine TB went up and in Northern Ireland, where there was no cull, bovine TB went down.
As I said before, the Government’s appointed independent scientists took ten years to conclude that there is no scientific evidence to support a cull. And yet the Welsh Assembly has decided to carry out a cull, click the link below and sign the petition to stop them coming to the same ludicrous conclusion in England.
http://www.backoffbadgers.org.uk/
And there is a ton of additional information, on the RSPCA site no less.
