Stop the 'Cull'!: Save Badgers with Viva!
Whilst it is great news that Wales has rejected badger 'culling' in favour of vaccination, wide-scale badger 'culling' is still on the cards in England later this year. Please help us show the public the real reasons badgers are being scapegoated – namely to mollify the dairy and beef industries. Order our free leaflets to fight badger ‘culling’. Badgers are counting on you!
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Boycott English dairy products and send the Governments and the dairy industry a clear message that you do not support the annihilation of British wildlife!
It is a fact that hunting with hounds is most prevalent in areas of England and Wales where TB in cattle is at its worst. Yet badgers are blamed for the spread of TB! Read more about this potential link and demand that Governments in both countries abandon plans to ‘cull’ badgers and improve biosecurity in the countryside to tackle TB. Find out more and send our pre-prepared message today.
Viva! unearths how poor biosecurity measures at markets – and not badgers – are a significant cause of the TB crisis in cattle. Watch our shocking investigation.
By Andrew Birch, originally published in The Observer.
Why are badgers being Scapegoated?
Badgers are harmless, loved, unique and secretive. Yet they face illegal trapping, baiting with dogs and 50,000 die on the roads each year in Britain. Now they face their biggest threat yet - the dairy industry!
British badgers are still being accused by farmers of being the main culprits in spreading bovine TB. The real culprits are farming practices so intense that dairy cows face numerous infections and rarely survive beyond five years old. TB tests are often inaccurate, allowing disease carriers to reinfect their herd or to be transported around the UK, infecting new herds.
They are ignoring the 10 year study by top scientists which established that badger 'culling' will not control TB in cattle. This means many animals will be cruelly killed to no purpose - other than mollifying farmers who refuse to change their ways.
Permanent stress
A dairy cow's babies are taken away so humans can have her milk. Many male calves are shot shortly after birth! Made pregnant again, she has to feed herself, her foetus and produce up to 120 pints of milk a day. Is it any wonder her immune system is in shreds?
Save badgers... and cows!
The surest way to save badgers now and in the future is to stop buying meat and dairy. The bonus is that dairy cows will no longer live in pain, you're likely to improve your health and you will be doing the single most important thing to protect the environment.
Campaign history
National Rally for the Badgers! Cardiff June 28 2008 - read how the day went here!
Read about the Rally for Badgers in North Wales - July 26 2008 - here!
Welsh Day of Action! Saturday, September 2008 - read the report.
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