Brian May Saving Badgers In U.K

[Magic]

Brian May Saving Badgers In U.K

Queen guitarist Brian May has scored a victory in stopping the culling of badgers in his native U.K. May, who heads the environmental group, Save Me, joined forces with other groups like the Badger Trust to stop the government's policy of exterminating badgers in the countryside.

The U.K. government was granting licenses to hunters to thin the badger population in hopes that it would stop the spread of bovine TB, which has wrecked havoc on the U.K. cattle industry. The government announced last week that they were calling off the pilot program in Gloucester due to ineffectiveness.

May had been arguing that it was a flawed strategy and it is about time the U.K. government recognized it as such. He explained on the Save Me website:

"Now that the failure of this whole shameful badger cull shambles can be seen so clearly seen, in spite of many moves of the goalposts, it must be time to abandon the concept, and get on with the only strategy which can ultimately succeed in eradication of bovine TB - vaccination of badgers and other wildlife, and prioritization of work to license the vaccine for cattle."

Brian May's Save Me

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[LG]

Good for Brian I hate all these 'culling' programs they are reprehensible and never work anyway.

Nature finds a balance if stupid neanderthal humanoids would stop interfering in everything.

 

[TheSound]

Absolutely agree…and very well done Brian May….though I have no idea why anyone would want to kill thousands of beautiful, harmless creatures like badgers if you can instead treat them with a vaccine….or even better vaccinate the cows if it’s a problem. Humans spread far more disease than anything else with the filthy environment we have created and live in – to say nothing of us spreading around colds, flu virus, hepatitis, malaria, measles, AIDS, STD’s – so if culling is the answer to eradicating disease, then let’s just shoot a few million humans to try and protect the rest of us? Sounds to me like this is more about hamburgers, and the huge beef lobby, than it is about anything else, and most of it anyway is based on bad science from what I can gather because there are numerous creatures that have the potential to spread bovine tuberculosis, but for some reason somebody in Cameron’s government just decided to pick on the poor badgers. Hey, maybe May will organise 'Badger Aid' and we can have a concert with concerned bands like Super Furry Animals, Crazy Horse, Arctic Monkeys, Cat Stevens, Lamb of God, Three Dog Night, Def Leopard etc...

 

[LG]

I think "Stoopid Humans" involved in wildlife management worldwide should have a poster of the cane toad on their office walls to remind them of the folly of man when you get massive brain cramps about how to go about managing an ecosystem, the only thing we've ever done well is exterminate lifeforms. Even now the bean-counters mowing down the Amazon forest know they are possibly destroying numerous medicinal plant species which might cure a host of diseases, but McDonald's needs the farms to raise cattle to feed their...food to the masses so the rainforest must fall.

It's one thing to bungle by accident, we seem to have crossed the threshold and intentionally destroy things without a moments thought.