Badger culls to continue in England despite lack of scientific evidence
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jun/04/badger-cull-licences-england
Posted by topotaul
Badger culls to continue in England despite lack of scientific evidence
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jun/04/badger-cull-licences-england
Posted by topotaul
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Dear Badger Group Members
Once again we have some breaking news for you, this time the shocking revelation sent to independent ecologist, Tom Langton, that Natural England’s Director of Science, Dr Peter Brotherton advised NOT to carry out the supplementary badger cull from 1 June 2024. His advice was overruled and 17 existing and 9 unnamed new licences have been approved and are active. This suggests it is a politically motivated action. We’ve written to Natural England and you can read the news release and letter below.
Badger Group Trust update.
https://www.badgertrust.org.uk/post/shocking-news-as-natural-england-issues-supplementary-cull-licences-against-scientific-advice
The Tory fucks just like killing and harming things for enjoyment. If it was acceptable to admit that then suddenly the arguments of tradition, pest control, and herd health would be gone in favour of them admitting they enjoy killing things.
The farmers, are fucking useless. Unchanged methods since they ripped out all the hedges, filled in the dew ponds, enlarged fields for monoculture ease. Subsidies and exports lining their pockets whilst banging on about feeding a nation and traditional guardians of the land. Fuck off, polluting waterways, destroying the countryside, and refusing to fight up farms. There is a reason why the average farmer is an OAP, and it’s not from a lack of interest in the young.
Look at allotments where they can get them, innovative, environmental, and productive compared to the carpet laying and blood fish and guts of the past.
In just shy of 30 years I’ve never seen a living badger out in the wild.
The headline of the article is just completely wrong. As the Badger Trust article says, there is scientific evidence that action taken has reduced bTB.
*“It is disappointing that the recent publication by Birch et al 2024 has been widely reported as providing evidence that badger culling* ***reduces the incidence of bTB by 56%****, when in fact the study shows* ***the overall impact of implementing a range of bTB control measures***, not culling alone.
What is unknown is how much is due to culling and how much is due to other measures. But the measures being taken (which unfortunately include killing badgers) obviously have an effect, as is perfectly clear by the massive reduction in bTB.
Badgers inadvertently killing cattle: too bad for the badgers.
XL bullies intentionally killing people: too bad for the people.
Glad we have our priorities straight.
We had a badger in the garden for a while. Caused so much damage. It left eventually.
Glad I have been growing plants from cuttings rather than buying them, would have been over £100 worth of plants if they have been bought.
I’m not vegan so I’m ok with culling. But I do understand if you are vegan and this would be considered morally wrong.