I live in North Somerset, in a semi rural setting and have a badger sett no more that 50 yards from where I'm typing this.
I drive, cycle and ride my horse in some very rural areas, it is where I prefer to be, so in short I am not really a town and definitely not a city dweller and so I am having genuine difficulty understanding what all the uproar is about culling badgers.
Bovine TB kills something like 50,000 badgers a year. It can remain latent for long periods, but once symptom show, the poor badger is destined to die, pretty slowly. Cows that contract bovine TB are put down immediately, so either way an animal dies, either by slow suffocation and starvation (badger with TB) or with a bullet in the head (cow).
But the protesters don't seem bothered by large black and white animals being shot, only fluffy (cute?) smaller black and white animals.
Exactly what is all the fuss about? Are we in 'fwuffy bunny wabbit' territory, or do the protesters have a fair point.
I drive, cycle and ride my horse in some very rural areas, it is where I prefer to be, so in short I am not really a town and definitely not a city dweller and so I am having genuine difficulty understanding what all the uproar is about culling badgers.
Bovine TB kills something like 50,000 badgers a year. It can remain latent for long periods, but once symptom show, the poor badger is destined to die, pretty slowly. Cows that contract bovine TB are put down immediately, so either way an animal dies, either by slow suffocation and starvation (badger with TB) or with a bullet in the head (cow).
But the protesters don't seem bothered by large black and white animals being shot, only fluffy (cute?) smaller black and white animals.
Exactly what is all the fuss about? Are we in 'fwuffy bunny wabbit' territory, or do the protesters have a fair point.