It has been three days since the first 2014 bullet was fired at a British Badger. How many poor creatures have been murdered since then? Fifty? One Hundred? We will not know until the shooting ends in six weeks time. But we already know how many badgers should have been killed: None.
Since 2009 in Wales, where cattle control was chosen over badger culling, TB related cattle slaughter has fallen by more than half. In England, the government won't even hire back the independent experts that reviewed last years cull, after they so categorically described its failures.
Each time a bullet flies through the night, and a badger doesn't make it home, it isn't because our nation has failed badgers. It is because our government has failed us.
Since 2009 in Wales, where cattle control was chosen over badger culling, TB related cattle slaughter has fallen by more than half. In England, the government won't even hire back the independent experts that reviewed last years cull, after they so categorically described its failures.
Each time a bullet flies through the night, and a badger doesn't make it home, it isn't because our nation has failed badgers. It is because our government has failed us.
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