Protect West Somerset's remaining badgers by investing in badger vaccination projects in the Council area.
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Linda Weeks
11 years ago
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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.
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Roger Weeks
11 years ago
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.
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William Bailey
11 years ago
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....
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Susan Fairweather
12 years ago
Culling is ineffective & cruel. The way forward is developing vaccines for cattle and badgers & improving biosecurity on farms.
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Susan Fairweather
12 years ago
Enough killing! It was cruel and ineffective: let's use our intelligence and adopt the rational strategy of vaccinating.
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Christine Hubbard
12 years ago
Badgers are falling foul of a Cattle disease, no one is sure how many even have it. Badgers should not die just to protect an industry, a vaccine is there for them. Vaccinate & keep improving & checking Bio security is adhered to on farms & in animal transfer. 4/5yrs vaccinating would make them herd immune against 4 yrs killing many healthy ones gaining nothing no immunity to future populations. So your Btb circle continues. It is not the Badgers fault time everyone realised this & use a vaccine to protect them.Thank you
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Anonymous
12 years ago
this is a much better strategy than uselessly causing suffering and death to badgers.
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Stephen Barratt
12 years ago
No evidence that culling is effective, could even exacerbate the problem. Vaccination is the only alternative.
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Linda Barratt
12 years ago
There is no scientific evidence to support culling badgers and the method used in the pilot cull was cruel, causing immense suffering to many animals.
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andrew hayes
12 years ago
History has shown that a badger cull only makes matters worse. The vacination of badgers is the best way of reducing T.B. It is also the best long term solution.
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Sally Saunders
12 years ago
the recent badger cull was a cruel farce.
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Christina Mary Lawson
12 years ago
There is no evidence that culling badgers is effective and vaccination makes much more sense.
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Anonymous
12 years ago
This makes much better sense than killing badgers
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Mel Mellish
12 years ago
No basis for culling badgers. Defra don't even know the stats for TB in cows since 2011! Say figures to be revised significantly downwards for 2012 and 2013.
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Thea Hollt
12 years ago
Support vaccination NOT extermination.
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Catherine Langton
12 years ago
The badger cull is unscientific and inhumane.
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Lynda Dermody
12 years ago
Badger culling is ineffective, inhumane, deeply unpopular with many people, and expensive.
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Sheila Conrad
12 years ago
Science has proved that killing badgers in an attempt to control TB in cattle does not work. Vaccination in both the badger population and cattle herds is the way forward.
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hester watson
12 years ago
I cannot understand why vaccination is not being used, and having killed off a number of badgers now would be the appropriate time.
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Kevin Hubbard
12 years ago
cheaper and more effective than killing the badgers is to bump off most of the government ... there would be masses of volunteers willing to do it for free as long as they keep on making such stupid decisions as to kill off our wildlife ... time to start protecting the planet rather than continuing to despoil it.
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.
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....
Culling is ineffective & cruel. The way forward is developing vaccines for cattle and badgers & improving biosecurity on farms.
Enough killing! It was cruel and ineffective: let's use our intelligence and adopt the rational strategy of vaccinating.
Badgers are falling foul of a Cattle disease, no one is sure how many even have it. Badgers should not die just to protect an industry, a vaccine is there for them. Vaccinate & keep improving & checking Bio security is adhered to on farms & in animal transfer. 4/5yrs vaccinating would make them herd immune against 4 yrs killing many healthy ones gaining nothing no immunity to future populations. So your Btb circle continues. It is not the Badgers fault time everyone realised this & use a vaccine to protect them.Thank you
this is a much better strategy than uselessly causing suffering and death to badgers.
No evidence that culling is effective, could even exacerbate the problem. Vaccination is the only alternative.
There is no scientific evidence to support culling badgers and the method used in the pilot cull was cruel, causing immense suffering to many animals.
History has shown that a badger cull only makes matters worse. The vacination of badgers is the best way of reducing T.B. It is also the best long term solution.
the recent badger cull was a cruel farce.
There is no evidence that culling badgers is effective and vaccination makes much more sense.
This makes much better sense than killing badgers
No basis for culling badgers. Defra don't even know the stats for TB in cows since 2011! Say figures to be revised significantly downwards for 2012 and 2013.
Support vaccination NOT extermination.
The badger cull is unscientific and inhumane.
Badger culling is ineffective, inhumane, deeply unpopular with many people, and expensive.
Science has proved that killing badgers in an attempt to control TB in cattle does not work. Vaccination in both the badger population and cattle herds is the way forward.
I cannot understand why vaccination is not being used, and having killed off a number of badgers now would be the appropriate time.
cheaper and more effective than killing the badgers is to bump off most of the government ... there would be masses of volunteers willing to do it for free as long as they keep on making such stupid decisions as to kill off our wildlife ... time to start protecting the planet rather than continuing to despoil it.