#UK - The badgers are shot at close or long range, left to bleed out for minutes or hours

 

The UK just declared open season on tens of thousands of badgers after it promised to stop the killing

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Dear friends, Culling, or the mass slaughter, of badgers has been practiced in the UK for a bloody 7 years. The government says it's the only way to stop the spread of bovine-TB, for which badgers are vectors. But the government is lying. A ten year long study prior to the cull's beginning concluded that "badger culling can make no meaningful contribution to cattle TB control in Britain." Since the beginning of the cull, the number of cows per year that contracted bovine-TB rose by nearly 8,000. The bloody badger cull is as ineffective as it is inhumane, thus the government vowed to phase the practice out in favor of vaccinations as well as improving farm biosecurity. But now, in a horrifying 180 turn, the government is doubling down on its previous murder crusade: they just announced that 11 more areas of the UK will be included in the badger cull, adding another 60,000 badger lives to the kill list. 60,000 more badgers that can now be gunned down, left to bleed out for minutes or even hours of suffering. This is senseless cruelty. Sign the petition and demand that the members of parliament make this bloody tradition a thing of the past — ban the badger cull! Thank you,   Lauren W. The Care2 Petitions Team P.S. The badger cull is as inhumane as it is ineffective. Sign the petition today.