Farmers could be allowed to kill badgers from 2011 - News - The EcologistIt strikes me that this Government is doing well in continuing the trend of successive Governments in not following the best available scientific advice and taking action of the type, scale and speed that the evidence suggests. Just off the top of my head in addition to the badger culling issue there is also: drugs and their classification; climate change; over-fishing...The grasp of science, scientific issues and their interrelationship with socio-economic and environmental factors in Parliament, in political circles generally and in the media is, with few exceptions, pretty poor.
More here, with useful links to some of the scientific debate on badger culling
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11303939
They are welcome to shoot the sweetcorn-munching buggers on my allotment!
ReplyDeleteWhat an animal lover you are anonymous, assuming you are serious about this. Is there anything else you'd gladly like to see shot?? Do animals have no inherent value at all for you?
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