we got the news today that the council is officially banning culling on their land and moving to a vaccination program. it has been such a long fight but i am so glad we pushed for the right thing. thanks for keeping the pressure on and sticking with me through …
December 2, 2013
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This is a national issue which will be of direct concern to the people of ArunDistrict Council when DEFRA "rolls out" its culling policy in 2014. The object of the petition is to ensure thatArun District Council's badger population is as safe as possible from slaughter and that the already available injectable badger vaccine against bTB is used in as many cases as possible. We ask this because we believe the culling policy is inhumane (DEFRA's measurement of "humaneness" is to time the screams of wounded badgers), inefficient (previous culls showed an increase in bTB because of badger movement) and unscientific (the majority of scientific opinion hold that a cull will have "no meaningful result").
To preserve the integrity of this petition please only sign it if you live, work or study in theArun District Council area of West Sussex.
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We, the undersigned, call on ArunDistrict Council to prohibit the culling of badgers on council-owned land and invest in vaccination programmes locally. We ask this because we believe culling to be inhumane, inefficient and unscientific.
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Reached 250 supporters
November 15, 2013
Reached 100 supporters
November 4, 2013
62 Comments
Killing badgers in defiance of scientific evidence that it is not just ineffective, but actually counter-productive in controlling bovine TB is both inhumane and immoral. I look to Arun District Council to protect badgers in this area.
I visited one of the new super dairy farms recently with 1000 plus cows. They spray all the surrounding fields with slurry. If badgers have TB, I think we know why! And you know why farmers cannot create bio-secure fencing and tolerate badgers in certain areas - because it would affect the local shoot to have fencing.
Please vaccinate the badger population. It's the only way to stop tb spreading, killing beautiful wildlife is just criminal especially when a alternative is available. No excuses for bloody minded killing of our wildlife.
this has been a total disaster here in my home area which is Gloucestershire, the first pilot cull zone. do all you can to stop this as it is unscientific and Owen Paterson tells so many lies.
Hardly any badgers have TB. It is a curable disease, so no animal should be shot because it has TB. None of the badgers who have been shot so far, have been tested for TB, so it's a pointless cull. Badgers catch TB from infected cattle so the only way to sort this problem out is to vaccinate cattle. The same way as was done with humans.
This is ineffective and interferes with balance of nature. Instead I call for regular, routine testing of hunting hounds for TB as they are the more likely spreaders of this disease
The cruel cull trials highlighted that this does not work and in fact spreads the disease. It is limited by the control of cattle movement and vaccination of cattle and badgers. An enormous waste of public money and unspeakably cruel.
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we got the news today that the council is officially banning culling on their land and moving to a vaccination program. it has been such a long fight but i am so glad we pushed for the right thing. thanks for keeping the pressure on and sticking with me through …
December 2, 2013
Final supporters
This is a national issue which will be of direct concern to the people of ArunDistrict Council when DEFRA "rolls out" its culling policy in 2014. The object of the petition is to ensure thatArun District Council's badger population is as safe as possible from slaughter and that the already available injectable badger vaccine against bTB is used in as many cases as possible. We ask this because we believe the culling policy is inhumane (DEFRA's measurement of "humaneness" is to time the screams of wounded badgers), inefficient (previous culls showed an increase in bTB because of badger movement) and unscientific (the majority of scientific opinion hold that a cull will have "no meaningful result").
To preserve the integrity of this petition please only sign it if you live, work or study in theArun District Council area of West Sussex.
For details of badger petitions in other parts of England, please contact B-R-A-V-E http://www.b-r-a-v-e.co.uk
We, the undersigned, call on ArunDistrict Council to prohibit the culling of badgers on council-owned land and invest in vaccination programmes locally. We ask this because we believe culling to be inhumane, inefficient and unscientific.
Updates
Reached 250 supporters
November 15, 2013
Reached 100 supporters
November 4, 2013
62 Comments
Scientific evidence has shown culling badgers to increase roaming and therefore the spread of TB. Whatever the motives for this cull, they are based on neither reason nor compassion.
Killing badgers in defiance of scientific evidence that it is not just ineffective, but actually counter-productive in controlling bovine TB is both inhumane and immoral. I look to Arun District Council to protect badgers in this area.
I visited one of the new super dairy farms recently with 1000 plus cows. They spray all the surrounding fields with slurry. If badgers have TB, I think we know why! And you know why farmers cannot create bio-secure fencing and tolerate badgers in certain areas - because it would affect the local shoot to have fencing.
Please vaccinate the badger population. It's the only way to stop tb spreading, killing beautiful wildlife is just criminal especially when a alternative is available. No excuses for bloody minded killing of our wildlife.
this has been a total disaster here in my home area which is Gloucestershire, the first pilot cull zone. do all you can to stop this as it is unscientific and Owen Paterson tells so many lies.
Hardly any badgers have TB. It is a curable disease, so no animal should be shot because it has TB. None of the badgers who have been shot so far, have been tested for TB, so it's a pointless cull. Badgers catch TB from infected cattle so the only way to sort this problem out is to vaccinate cattle. The same way as was done with humans.
This is ineffective and interferes with balance of nature. Instead I call for regular, routine testing of hunting hounds for TB as they are the more likely spreaders of this disease
The cruel cull trials highlighted that this does not work and in fact spreads the disease. It is limited by the control of cattle movement and vaccination of cattle and badgers. An enormous waste of public money and unspeakably cruel.
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Scientific evidence has shown culling badgers to increase roaming and therefore the spread of TB. Whatever the motives for this cull, they are based on neither reason nor compassion.