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The Government is considering killing badgers to control the disease in cattle, bovine tb. We need your help to stop this.
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Feature: Back off badgers
We urgently need your help to convince the government that badger culling is wrong.
Despite strong opposition from the RSPCA, the Coalition Government has announced a consultation on the proposed badger cull in England as part of a package of measures to control Bovine TB. This consultation will take place in mid-September.
In 2006 when a cull was last under discussion, more than 47,000 members of the public objected. The badger cull was subsequently halted and alternative control measures were considered instead. A TB vaccine for badgers was licensed for use in March and the RSPCA believes that the Coalition Government should proceed with the project that had been planned using this vaccine. We also want to see a continuation of improved cattle measures, including pre- and post-movement testing, husbandry and biosecurity, rather than the widespread killing of badgers across England.
WHAT YOU CAN DO
Badger your MP! Send a letter to your MP and register your opposition to a badger cull
Get mobile – text ‘BADGER’ to 60022 with a short comment
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For more information about badgers visit www.rspca.org.uk/badgers
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people seem to only think badgers are the problem. there has been no mention of the fact that deer can also get into the same area as the cattle. They graze the same grass as the cattle, and probably use ...
icac 31/08/2010 at 7:58p.m.
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