Get Off My Badger

[Sid Bonkers]

New single out now Badger Swagger the single has been made to highlight the plight of the Badger that are set (no pun) to be culled. According to Sir David Attenborough, Brian May, Slash, Sonny Green and many others involved with the song that inoculating badgers against TB would actually be cheaper than a cull and would certainly be better for the badger.

All profits from the sale and royalties will go to the protection of badgers.

Please visit http://www.getoffmybadger.com watch the new single/video and follow the link to the government petition to STOP THE CULL, and give Brock a break.

http://www.getoffmybadger.com/

http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/38257




NOTE TO MODS....I hope this is cool with you guys, if not delete it and I will re post another thread without the links.

 

[noblehead]

Interesting feature on this story on Countryfile on Sunday night, they started a cull in Ireland around 10 years ago and have seen a dramatic fall in cases of TB in cattle, that said they did say that the Bio Security in Ireland is much tighter than here and the livestock are tested every year as opposed to 3 yearly here.

Inoculation is far better than a cull IMHO.

 

[izzzi]

Thanks Sid for for this important information.

Roy,

 

[daisy1]

I agree that badgers should be vaccinated, not slaughtered (call it by the real name). I hope that by my having watched the links the royalties will go to the fund. Unfortunately non-residents of the UK can't sign petitions

I first became aware of this need to protect badgers from an episode of Yes Prime Minister some years ago.

The badgers in Switzerland are healthy I'm pleased to say.

 

[StephenM]

I listened to a discussion about this on the radio and was staggered how little agreement there was between the two sides – it’s nearly party politics rather than joined up thinking. My personal view is that you need a mixture of vaccination with some culling where the badger population has increased rapidly. It is the same with urban foxes – there are far too many and some look quite mangey. Reducing numbers would benefit both them and us. However, it does need to be done humanely!

 

[sparkyrich]

To be fair, human beings are out- breeding them all and some of them look mangier (sp?) so maybe we should leave the animals alone and cull the people? Stopping T2's testing is a start, pumping us full of statins will be helping too! ( betcha cant guess who's just read Dan Browns latest book hahaha!)


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[WeeWillie]

I listened to a discussion about this on the radio and was staggered how little agreement there was between the two sides – it’s nearly party politics rather than joined up thinking. My personal view is that you need a mixture of vaccination with some culling where the badger population has increased rapidly. It is the same with urban foxes – there are far too many and some look quite mangey. Reducing numbers would benefit both them and us. However, it does need to be done humanely!

Well said, StephenM.
Couldn't have put it better myself.

A reasonable and sensible proposal, in my opinion.

willie.

 

[WhitbyJet]

'Hunting is merely a cowardly circumlocution for the especially cowardly murder of fellow creatures who don't have a chance. Hunting is a variant of human mental illness.'
Theodor Heuss

 

[CollieBoy]

If Alistair Darling were stil chancellor of the exchequer we wouldn't have this messin' with badgers :lol:

 

[Paul_c]

they shouldn't be inoculating the badgers, they should be inoculating the cattle, but the food industry don't hold with that as it would mean we can't export our beef or milk to a lot of countries.

http://www.defra.gov.uk/animal-diseases ... ccination/

Barriers to vaccination of cattle against TB and what is being done to change the law

Vaccination of cattle against TB is currently prohibited by EU legislation, in place principally because BCG vaccination of cattle can interfere with the tuberculin skin test which is the recognised primary diagnostic test for TB in cattle.

Vaccinating cattle in the UK against TB but without a Marketing Authorisation for the vaccine runs the risk that live cattle and cattle product exports could be banned by other countries. While the export market for live cattle is relatively small, the value of our meat and dairy exports is much greater. Our dairy exports alone grew by nearly 20% in 2011, to more than £1.1billion.