It’s
official. June 1st is the start of culling season and one of the
worst things about this is the sad fact that this outrageous and barbaric state
of affairs has been fully sanctioned by the British government.
Five
thousand badgers may be killed in two pilot badger culls in West
Gloucestershire and West Somerset and it is likely that it will cost around £4
million to provide enough police officers to cope with the inevitable disruptions
caused by animal right protestors.
Brian May,
Bill Oddie, and hundreds of protestors—some wearing badger masks—have already
stormed the streets of London and delivered a petition against this cruel
practice. The petition had been signed by 228,000 people, but the powers that
be refuse to be moved and continue to claim that course of action is necessary
to prevent the spread of bovine TB.
Many
experts disagree and consider the cull do be an ill-advised act that may cause
the disease to spread faster than normal, meaning the government will have
spent millions of pounds of the British taxpayer's money to create a bigger
problem than they had before.
Philip
Mansbridge, chief executive of animal charity Care for the Wild, has stated:
"The badger cull has no scientific, economic or animal welfare
justification.
"The
Government and the NFU are blindly embarking on one of the worst agricultural
policies of the past 30 years, which will lead to senseless slaughter, chaos
and disruption in the countryside, huge cost to the taxpayer and no meaningful
reduction in the spread of bovine TB."
