Sign the petition to stop the plan to shoot badgers

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If you do not live in the UK, use postcodes SE1 9QQ or SW1X 7RN

Background | Source 38 Degrees

The government has announced plans to start culling badgers. There’s been a big debate among 38 Degrees members about these culls. Some of us believe killing badgers would be wrong under any circumstances. Some of us believe that if the science really proved that shooting badgers could make a real dent in the cow TB problem, it would be a tragic necessity.

But 87% of us agree on this: the government’s current plans to shoot England’s badgers simply don’t stack up. The government’s own scientific advisers warn that it won’t solve the problem of TB in cattle, and could even make it worse.

Government scientists say that if a cull isn’t carried out “in a co-ordinated, sustained and simultaneous manner according to the minimum criteria, then this could result in a smaller benefit or even a detrimental effect.”

Can you take 30 seconds now to add your name to the petition?

put away your guns,
leave badgers be.
cullling is murder
and an affront
to morality!

Karen Lyons Kalmenson