This is a national issue which will be of direct concern to the people of Surrey Heath Borough Council when DEFRA "rolls out" its culling policy in 2014.
The object of the petition is to ensure that Surrey Heath 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 Surrey Heath 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 Surrey Heath 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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leave the poor things alone. there is plenty of land in surrey where they dont hurt anyone and we shouldnt be killing wildlife just because of some bad policy from up in london
The badger cull is unscientific and inhumane
Killing and Slaughtering badgers is cruel, unnecessary and uncivilized.
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This is a national issue which will be of direct concern to the people of Surrey Heath Borough Council when DEFRA "rolls out" its culling policy in 2014.
The object of the petition is to ensure that Surrey Heath 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 Surrey Heath 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 Surrey Heath 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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We don't have a significant number of dairy or beef farms in the area so why do we need to be concerned in this area with the transfer of TB from badgers to the cow population? Surely this should be one area where badgers are safe!
leave the poor things alone. there is plenty of land in surrey where they dont hurt anyone and we shouldnt be killing wildlife just because of some bad policy from up in london
The badger cull is unscientific and inhumane
Killing and Slaughtering badgers is cruel, unnecessary and uncivilized.
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We don't have a significant number of dairy or beef farms in the area so why do we need to be concerned in this area with the transfer of TB from badgers to the cow population? Surely this should be one area where badgers are safe!