ePetition details

Save Vale of White Horse Badgers from Culling

We the undersigned petition the 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.

This is a national issue which will be of direct concern to the people of Vale of White Horse when Defra "rolls out" its culling policy in 2014. The object of the petition is to ensure that Vale's badger population is as safe as possible from slaughter and that the already available injectable badger vaccine against bTB is used in an many cases as possible. We ask this because we believe the culling policy to be inhumane (Defra's measurement of "humaneness" is to time the screams of wounded badgers), inefficient (previous culls show an increase in bTB because of badger movement) and unscientific (the majority of scientific opinion holds that a cull will have "no meaningful result".

This ePetition ran from 08/11/2013 to 30/04/2014 and has now finished.

88 people signed this ePetition.

 

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