Tag: badger

  • Petitions, petitions, petitions

    The online petition calling on the Government to “stop the badger cull” – launched in autumn 2012 by Queen guitarist Brian May – finally closed on September 7, having collected a grand total of 303,771 (ish) signatures. We say “ish” because, due to the nature of the online signing process, additional signatures are continuing to…

  • And so it begins…

    And so it begins…

    After months of speculation about when the trial badger culls would begin, the fateful moment finally arrived on August 27 when marksmen armed with high velocity rifles stepped into fields throughout Somerset. In a letter to NFU members, president Peter Kendall called the pilots – which will see around5,000 badgers in Somerset and Gloucestershire culled over the…

  • Things aren’t always black and white

    Things aren’t always black and white

    The RSPCA revealed this week that an e-petition against the Government’s badger cull had achieved a “record number of signatures“, with more than 260,000 people (and counting…) signing up to protest against the shooting of badgers as a way of combating bovine TB. This huge figure makes “Stop the Badger Cull” the best supported petition…

  • To cull or not to cull?

    To cull or not to cull?

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    For some time now, the badger cull debate has been ongoing, and finally, despite continuing setbacks from the RSPCA and other supporters of “Team Badger”, such as iconic Brian May, things seem to be moving. With a well-loved famous figure heading the “against” argument for the cull, the public are easily led to believe that…