As you may be aware, the Badger Trust recently lost its appeal against the judgment given by Lord Justice Ouseley in July in respect of the Judicial Review made against the Government’s decision to hold a pilot trial of the free-shooting of badgers in parts of Somerset and Gloucestershire. This is clearly not the outcome they were hoping for. If, like me you feel passionate about this and would like to add your voice to the petition to get this cull stopped, then please click on the link below:http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/38257
For more information, do take a look at the Badger Trust website hereClaire
Thanks for that Sunrider! Only on-line during office hours so didn't see there was an issue with the link! Sorry Sooty!
What I found shocking was the quantity of cows slaughtered simply because they're not in calf!!!! Horrific!
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Marjus - I'm not sure what you expect would happen to a cow that failed to conceive? Margins are very low in the dairy industry. Farmers simply can't afford to keep animals that are not producing.
Hilary J
HilaryJ said: Marjus - I'm not sure what you expect would happen to a cow that failed to conceive? Margins are very low in the dairy industry. Farmers simply can't afford to keep animals that are not producing.
It's not a matter of the fact that they *are* slaughtered (although surely they would conceive another time given the chance???), but the *number* of cows that are slaughtered due to this, compared to the negligible amount lost to BTB!!! When put into context, with all of the other reasons for slaughtering, BTB affects such a tiny proportion. This is what I find shocking!
So why not spend the money on looking for ways of making cows more 'fertile', or a cure for Mastitis, or for the countless other things which cows are slaughtered for, rather than waste it on a cull of a - so-called - protected Native species, when it has already been proven that it will be ineffective for a variety of reasons!
HilaryJ said:Marjus - I'm not sure what you expect would happen to a cow that failed to conceive? Margins are very low in the dairy industry. Farmers simply can't afford to keep animals that are not producing.
Dairy farming is a horrible and cruel industry - and totally unnecessary. Cow milk is food for baby cows NOT humans. Culling Badgers is yet another example of humans putting their own interests above any thoughts of compassion towards another species.
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cjbeady you are in a large minority in not using dairy products and dairy farming is not a cruel industry.
It would be very nice if your link was not full of facts that are so inaccurate as to be called stupid,ref a cows udder is 75kgs in some instances.
Having looked after cows for over 40 years can assure you it would be very very unlikely for a cows udder to be more than 20kgs more or less a quarter of your links ridiculous claim and then the 20kgs would only be for a very short time each day and only a very small part of the year.
In actual fact for 2 months each year a cows udder virtually weighs nothing.
You are quite welcome to your views but information given in links needs to be correct.
75kgs is impossible.
The results herein presented furnish exact critical evidence for the conclusion that the most of the milk is present as such in the udder of dairy cattle at the time of milking. The amount of milk which may be secreted during milking cannot, on the basis of these results, be over 20 per cent of the milk yield of the cow. The results show clearly that the size of the udder measures closely the amount of milk which the cow is able to secrete. The results indicate that about 1/5 of a pound of secreting tissue is necessary for the secretion of a pound of milk during a period of 15 hours. The weight of the udder during the period that the cow is dry appears to be between 6 and 8 pounds.
Less we forget
The link also states on video that cows produce 120 litres a day when in fact it is a very very good cow that produces 30 litres a day and only exceptional cows give 45 litres a day.
I think we're getting away from the point here. Help a wonderful part of our wildlife from being needlessly exterminated by a misguided few with a powerful lobby in Government who believe it's necessary even though every expert and research says otherwise.
Also don't buy milk products from those supermarket which support the cull. Waitrose, Co-Op and M&S have all said they won't be buying supplies from those farms supporting the cull so you can get what you need there.
I stopped drinking milk yesterday!
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I have signed petitions, sent emails to relevant counsellors etc throughout this campaign and will only shop at my local Co-op for milk.
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