Tuesday 26th August: British Government quietly release plans to kill up to 1876 badgers in Somerset and Gloucestershire this year.
Friday 29th August: Badger Trust high court legal challenge against the badger cull is overturned.
Tuesday 2nd September: Badger vaccination projects are announced to be taking place around the country.
I don't approve when I see a story of vaccination being used to bury the real news of the imminent and unjustifiable murder of badgers.
Make no mistake, our nation is in uproar about what is being done in Somerset and Gloucestershire. More than 300,000 people signed Brian May's anti cull petition in 2013, but the cull continued. It claimed the lives of almost 2000 badgers, cost around £7,000,000 and the independent expert team hired to study the results described it as 'ineffective and inhumane'.
At this point, any sensible person would look at the overwhelming scientific evidence against the cull, the view of their own expert panel, the will of the people, and accept that they had made a mistake.
But not this government. Instead they fired the expert panel, and told the contractors to get the guns back out.
This cull is an abomination, which the government are pursuing at all costs and sweeping deftly under the media radar. Many still do not know there is to be a badger cull this year. It is up to each of us to share the truth. Please share the news of this imminent cull with friends and family:
