Submitted on Wednesday 5th September 2012
Rejected on Wednesday 21st June 2017
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: no-action (see below for details)
Stop the Badger Cull
The Government is about to embark on a badger cull in England, in a tragically misguided attempt to control the spread of bovine TB in cows. The cull will attempt to kill 70% of badgers in designated areas. It will be indiscriminate and virtually impossible to monitor; meaning that mainly healthy badgers which are slaughtered, destroying family groups and in some areas they may become extinct.
Independent scientific studies have overwhelmingly shown that badger culling 'can play no meaningful role' in reducing bovine TB, and strongly suggest that it could make matters worse in some cases, by dispersing infected badgers into clean areas.
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