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North Wales Rally for Badgers!

 
(c) Terry Williams

Up to a hundred people crowded the beach front promenade to say "No!" to badger 'culling' in Wales

On Saturday, 26 July 2008, up to a hundred animal lovers marched through Colwyn Bay to call for the proposed badger 'cull' in Wales to be scrapped.

Organised by Viva! contact Judi Hewitt for North Wales Animal Rights, the peaceful event was a huge success. Displaying posters and  badger masks provided by Viva!, the protest begun outside the Welsh Assembly offices and then marched to the promenade for a rally, song (by Judi) and speeches.

Judi says, "While we were there, we had hundreds of people beeping their horns in support. It was incredible!!!!! Not one nasty remark, not one two finger insult! Brilliant!".

The event attracted media across North Wales, and the support of Queen's Brian May.

Special thanks goes to Judi for organising the event so well, and raising the profile of the campaign - and, in turn, mounting pressure on Elin Jones to call of the 'cull'.

At the rally, Judi read out the following message from Viva!:

"The proposed ‘cull’ of badgers in Wales is a disgrace. It is designed to pull a veil over the failings of farmers and Government. The finger of blame for this epidemic of bovine TB points directly at them. They have allowed lax cattle movement control and insufficient testing let us get to the position we are now in. It doesn’t matter which way they cut it, badgers are not to blame for the spread of bovine TB.

We have science on our side. We have common sense on our side. And now we have the English Government on our side. Elin Jones and her cronies are looking increasingly isolated. Gatherings like this today and the Rally Viva! held outside the Assembly buildings in Cardiff send a very clear message that they will not get away with massacring our wildlife for folly.

Viva! has written to every AM in Wales urging them to put pressure on Elin Jones to change, and we have contacted every newspaper and media outlet in Wales. We are also planning a Welsh specific badger leaflet and a Day of Action across the whole of Wales in September. Details will soon be available on the Viva! website.

This is a battle we will win – we must win."

Click here to find out what else you can do for badgers! You can email the Welsh Assembly from this page.

 
 
 

"The culling of badgers is absolutely obscene. The largest ever study found that it would make things things worse not better, yet they still push ahead towards the meaningless destruction of our wildlife. Please help Viva! stop this madness by ending the cull and helping people give up the very things that are at the root of it: meat and dairy."
TV wildlife presenter and Viva! patron Wendy Turner-Webster
 

“I'm so thrilled to hear that the proposed extermination of this country's Badgers has been scrapped. I congratulate Hilary Benn on a brave and humane decision. And I am encouraged by the rejection of what I regard as a disgracefully scientifically unsound report by ex chief scientific advisor to the Government, Sir David King.

“The Farming community must now logically look to improvements in their own methods to control TB in Cattle. We can only hope that this leads to long-term improvements in the way farm animals are treated; it is long overdue.

“Just for the sake of making more money out of what some of us eat (not me) ... these people wanted to exterminate a whole population of innocent wild animals who have as much right to live in this land as we humans do.”
Brian May from Queen

“Now farmers will realise the strength of the science and will recognise that culling has no part to play. They should now objectively, alongside government, consider the cattle control elements that we all know are absolutely essential as outlined in our report.”
Professor John Bourne, chairman of the Independent Scientific Group

"Culling badgers is historically known to be totally ineffective in stopping bovine TB. Northern Ireland has proved that the most effective procedures are strict cattle controls and no culling. We should all follow their lead- It works!"
Jenny Seagrove

“We must not make badgers scapegoats for bovine TB”.
Joanna Lumley

“How can we condemn a protected species to death when the reasons for doing so have been discredited by valid scientific evidence? Badger culling is utterly barbaric and pointless. Please support Viva! in their fight to stop this needless massacre of our precious wildlife.”
Twiggy

“Deep down anyone with common sense knows that killing animals is wrong, but what makes the idea of culling badgers even more sinister is that it’s being done in order to cover up bad farming practices and lazy testing methods. I don’t want to stand by knowing that these great creatures are suffering and being killed, but I also don’t want to see a time in the future when we look back and wonder how we let another group of our animals disappeared from our country.

I say no to this or any other badger cull and I urge all caring people to do the same. Get rid of ignorance, not badgers.”
Benjamin Zephaniah

“I totally support Viva! in their campaign to stop the badger cull which is both obscene and unnecessary since top scientists say it will only make the spread of TB in cattle worse.”
Rose Elliot

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