7/30/2019 Help stop the persecution of badgers
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Farmers pet hateBadgers are harmless, loved, unique and
secretive.They are already under pressure from baiting withdogs,
illegal trapping and road kill 50,000animals a year. But the
biggest threat of all is fromthe dairy industry.
Farmers hysterically blame them for the spread ofbovine TB even
though the real reasons lie muchcloser to home. Modern dairy
farming is so intense
that cows cannot cope and are riddled withdiseases and exhausted
from over work by beingforced to produce vast quantities of milk.
Theirimmune systems are in tatters and most areslaughtered at five
or six years old.
To this disaster can be added grossly inaccurate TBtests that
allowdiseased animals toreinfect their ownherd or to betransported
around
the UK, infectingnew herds.
A 50 million, 10-year, independentinvestigation by topscientists
(ISG)concluded that:
Badger culling cannotmeaningfully contribute tothe control of
cattle TB.Some badgers do have TB but it is not easily passedon to
others. The irony is that it was cattle whospread the disease and
it was unheard of inbadgers before the 1950s. They are now
targetedas the culprits by farmers who refuse to believe
the science.
Permanent stressA dairy cows new-born babies are taken awayafter
a couple of days so humans can have hermilk. Hundreds of thousands
of male calves areshot or sold to the veal industry. Made
pregnant
again, she has to feed herself, her foetusand produce up to 120
pints of milk a day.Her body cannot cope. This is at the heartof
the problem.
Save badgers and cows!The surest way to save badgers is to
stopbuying meat and dairy. You will no longerplay a part in cows
suffering, its healthierand you will beprotecting
theenvironment.
Persecuted andtrapped: cages
willlittertheBritishcountrysideifthecullgoesahead
