Stop the badger Cull!

Following years of contentious debate, the Westminster Government has now gone ahead with a pilot badger cull in two areas of England. As culling cannot be selective many perfectly healthy badgers will be slaughtered as ‘collateral damage’ in fact, as many as 6 out of 7 badgers killed could be bTB free ... [continued below]

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Scientific consensus does not support a cull of badgers. More than 30 of the top animal disease experts describe the cull as a "costly distraction" that risks making the problem of tuberculosis in cattle worse and that will cost far more than it saves.

The proposals are part of a package of measures aimed at controlling bovine tuberculosis (bTB) in cattle. The RSPCA believes that vaccination, increased levels of testing and improved biosecurity are more effective ways of dealing with the problem in the long term and eradicating bovine TB in cattle for good. Download our report 'Backing Badgers: Why the cull will fail' for more information about the flawed scientific arguments used to justify this reckless cull.

Mythbusters report launched

A Team Badger report 'Backing Badgers: Why the cull will fail' refutes the top 10 arguments to support the cull of badgers and debunks some of the myths being used to justify the 'mindless' cull of badgers.

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