This afternoon.
Members of An ARAN (Animal Rights Action Network) outside the Department of Agriculture, Kildare Street, Dublin
The Department is planning to kill 12,000 badgers in what protestors call a “misguide effort” to stop the spread of TB .
ARAN writes:
“Over the weekend, the Department of Agriculture in Dublin announced plans to slaughter 12,000 badgers in Ireland over the next two years, as part of a “cull” to stop the spread of TB.
But science is on our side when it comes to arguing that a badger “cull” will not stop the spread of TB. In fact, it is the poor, beleaguered badger that will be the real victim here. These iconic Irish animals will be trapped by vicious snares and may be caught in these horrific wire instruments of cruelty for hours or even days, until the ‘contractors’ arrive to shoot the animals dead. Problem solved? Absolutely not.”
(Leah Farrell/Photocall Ireland)
Oh go on then! http://www.badgerbadgerbadger.com/
Snake its a snake!
In this thread the abortion enthusiasts show their sensitive side.
Ha!
+12,000
The new ABM?
Jeremy pls
Seriously though, it’s sad. They ask for the research into the best approach to stopping the spread of TB, the research says badger culls are not the way and they do it anyway. At least thats what happened in the UK.
That’s the opinion of science. What does the church say?
That a badger betrayed our lord in the garden of gethsemene.
Or maybe that was the wind in he willows.
I dunno.
What is the best way then?
I’m not really well up on the arguments. But it strikes me (casually) that culling the carriers of TB might well seem a like a reasonable attempt at a solution. Particularly, If no reasonable alternative solutions are being offered.
From what I remember the process of culling wasnt efficient enough, wasnt fast enough and badgers were dispersing over other farms in the process and spreading the contagion…think theyre looking at alternative and more efficient methods though, one of which is to release CO into the burrows, not sure if this method has been piloted yet though
Yes overall it had little or no impact I believe – the recent UK cull
While badgers do carry the disease I believe that statistically most livestock catch it from other livestock hence why some say – ‘kill all the cattle’ LOL
More here
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jul/03/whats-the-best-way-to-tackle-bovine-tb
The approved method of getting rid of TB is to slaughter a whole herd of cattle when a reactor is found. The infected cattle are the vector, not the badgers.
we should contract the israelis to ‘do a gaza’ on them.
sorry, couldn’t help it.
F**kin Israelis
Looks like downstairs Bruxelles on a Saturday night.
I say cull them
apart from TB risk they have heads made of granite…..if you’ve been unfortunate enough to smack one of them whilst driving along in the dead of night you’ll know what I mean
A fox did 3K damage to my car. I’d hate to think what a badger would have done.
But you see badgers knocked down on the roads. I would think they would even make a nasty mess of some culchie land cruiser
Martco- what an awful person you must be. Culling badgers does nothing to stop the spread of TB, only endangers a beautiful animal that imposes itself on noone. Shame on the government for not listening to the science. Typical Ireland…
yes
I’m horrible….a horrible horrible person with a point of view thats different to yours
Cull them, cull them all now I say!
muhahahahawwww
etc.
Id like to introduce those ejit protestors to my two friends mr smith and mr wesson
Why would they want to meet your testicles?
You’d like to murder people and you’re confessing that in public?
You have friends?
That crowd looks as rough as a badger’s…
Badger culling has been used in Ireland for decades, but the recent debacle in the UK seems to have given it some publicity. Does anyone know where to find a long-term Irish study on its effectiveness at reducing bovine TB? The science doesn’t appear settled, but I’d be curious to see some data.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=badger+ireland
Thanks. That suggests it does work, probably.
Animal Rights Action Network are annoying c***s
Ah the animal rights crowd, as nasty and unpleasant (and psychotic) as there is…
… stars in the sky?
What do you expect from the Dept. that is happy to license more huge Salmon farms which will pollute our coasts with sea lice and wipe out what’s left of our indigenous salmon and sea-trout populations. It also lies about the number of jobs in Salmon farming and refuses to release it’s own report on the salmon escapees during the winter storms because they know it spoils ‘the narrative’.
Farmers/Dept. of Agric. 2 – Salmon and Badgers 0
First the click baiting now the badger baitin’
+1 Clan of Badgers and the Sett they live in
I’m sure the Healy-Rae family will be first in line with the poison-gas.
“Badger, 4, has mark of the devil”