No to a badger cull on council land View ePetition responses Browse all current ePetitions We the undersigned petition the council to call on Dover District and surrounding areas owned by 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 Dover/Deal when DEFRA rolls out its culling policy in 2014. The object of the petition is to ensure that Dover/Deals badger population is as safe as possible from slaughter and that the already available injectable badger vaccine against bTB is used in as many cases as possible. We ask this because we believe the culling policy is inhumane (DEFRAs measurement of humaneness is to time the screams of wounded badgers), inefficient (previous culls showed an increase in bTB because of badger movement) and unscientific (the majority of scientific opinion hold that a cull will have no meaningful result).It is also a huge waste of finances and unreliable. The vaccination programme is more humane, cost effective and the results will result in a long term fight against bTB. This ePetition runs from 27/11/2013 to 25/02/2014. You have already signed this ePetit, 61 people have signed this ePetition.
Posted on: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 12:39:54 +0000
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