This is a national issue which will be of direct concern to the people of Guildford Borough Council when DEFRA "rolls out" its culling policy in 2014.
The object of the petition is to ensure that Guildford Borough 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 the Guildford Borough Council area.
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 Guildford Borough 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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An unscientific cull that flies in the face of scientific advice and expertise can only lead to more problems in the long run - important to GBC in that it will create the need for additional expenditure!
Vaccination & biosecurity will be effective in the long term - culling is cruel & ineffective.
The badger cull is unscientific and inhumane.
This is cruel killing these beautiful animals it has to stop!!
stop badgering the badgers.leave them alone,people kill enough of them on the road.
I am wholeheartedly against this whole cull!
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This is a national issue which will be of direct concern to the people of Guildford Borough Council when DEFRA "rolls out" its culling policy in 2014.
The object of the petition is to ensure that Guildford Borough 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 the Guildford Borough Council area.
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 Guildford Borough 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.
7 Comments
I am totally against this!! There is no scientific evidence that slaughtering badgers prevents the spread of TB. Vaccination is only way forward!
An unscientific cull that flies in the face of scientific advice and expertise can only lead to more problems in the long run - important to GBC in that it will create the need for additional expenditure!
Vaccination & biosecurity will be effective in the long term - culling is cruel & ineffective.
The badger cull is unscientific and inhumane.
This is cruel killing these beautiful animals it has to stop!!
stop badgering the badgers.leave them alone,people kill enough of them on the road.
I am wholeheartedly against this whole cull!
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I am totally against this!! There is no scientific evidence that slaughtering badgers prevents the spread of TB. Vaccination is only way forward!