Scientific evidence continues to discredit the Badger Cull. The experience in Wales with improved cattle measures and the vaccination of Badgers in the TB hotspot areas is producing statistics that cannot be ignored. So please support this petition and help a realistic approach to controlling bTB.

Why spend an inordinate amount of money on killings badgers, with such a scatter gun approach, on the off chance they they MAY have bTB and MAY infect cattle. We have virtually eradicated TB in humans through vaccination. Vaccination offers protection to our badgers until we're able to vaccinate cattle.

I live in a rural village and abhor this killing of our wildlife, cruelty, politically motivated, without accurate science or even accurate figures

was not impressed to see that a council vehicle was used to collect a dead badger from a road at 11pm one night during the cull....please support vaccinations.

Yesterday, the government admitted that some of the data they used to justify the cull was wrong due to a computer error ! How much more misinformation has been used ?

We expect West Somerset District Council to recognise the futility of culling badgers and the serious harm it is doing to local communities. As representatives of these communities the council can support farming and wildlife by vaccinating badgers on council owned and controlled land.

The whole case for culling badgers is based on conjecture, emotion, hearsay and false Defra statistics as recently published. We would argue that the badger cull is illegitimate on the grounds that no proven justification exists to substantiate the policy. The case is not proven for the incidence of bTB in Badgers, in Wales over a 1000 badgers in the high risk area have been trapped and vaccinated and none of these badgers have exhibited signs of bTB infection. With failure to test the slaughtered badgers from the 2013 cull, opportunity for scientific research and statistical proof was lost. Our understanding is that it cost least £4,000 per badger killed, thus vaccination proves much more cost effective. As regular visitors to Somerset to enjoy its wildlife we would ask that you support this petition’s request.

I am not a townie but a countryman, born and bred. I also know rather a lot about bTB and the scientific goverment data that is being used as evidence to support the cull of badgers on the Brendons. The datasets and models being used are at best flawed, at worst: erroneous fabrication. This cull has, I can assure you from a position of knowledge, nothing to do with bTB & everything to do with politics! Shame on this Government for allowing a vested interest pressure group to dictate official government policy, twisting the facts in so doing....