Who Is Going To Be A Prize Turkey This Christmas and Buy From British Farmers?

Regarding this Badger Cull I have to say that the true motivations behind the cull is only the tip of the iceberg with this government; as within days of taking office they cancelled 5 out of 6 vaccination programs that the previous government had set up. Was this a simple cost cutting measure and done in the ignorance of the high policing costs that has resulted for the two pilot culls, which could have been used effectively to vaccinate thousands of health badgers!

The Cull Money Could Have Vaccinated Thousands of Health Badgers!

The Badger Cull was only implemented by Owen Paterson because of his loyalty to the Countryside Alliance and the National Farmers’ Union (NFU) and with the NFU having a complete and totally undemocratic stranglehold on Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) where the science is being rewritten to suit this feudal blood thirsty minority. 

Owen Paterson, who is behind this badger cull, has always thought that the shooting of foxes is not humane and we lack the marksmen to shoot them. This was in defense of hunting foxes with hounds. So surely that means that we don’t have enough marksmen for shooting badgers humanely? 

Because of the badgers anatomy it is potentially more difficult to free-shoot a badger in a quick humane way than, say a fox or a deer. There is a real fear that many animals will be injured rather than killed quickly and humanely, and could suffer a slow, painful death as a result. But then the reluctance for the shooting of foxes may be because of Peterson’s loyalty to the fox hunting wishes of the Countryside Alliance. The word hypocrisy comes to mind in his reasoning.

Owen Paterson Write Exclusively for the Countryside Alliance.

But in all of this farmers have been lead by the nose and short changed by the NFU and the Tories. Culling badgers will not work and will only serve to further alienate there already impatient customer base, driving more and more people away from dairy and meat products on both health and animal welfare grounds.

Why the NFU are now pushing for a reduction in the ‘red tape’, stating that the farming industry knows best and will work better without too much Civil Service interference and silly rules and regulations that are designed to protect our food chain. I think with previous farming disasters like Mad Cow, Foot & Mouth, bovine TB, millions of unnecessary cattle movements and the recent horse meat scandal. That the last thing this industry needs is a reduction in our food production standards and environmental controls. We are already eating bovine infected cattle without being consulted or informed; the right to know about what we are eating by honest labeling has been taken away from us; we are treated with so much contempt by the NFU.

Horse on the Hoof – Countryside Alliance Demo Outside the Labour Party Conference

Make a Statement Any Way - Life No Object!

But the worst is yet to come according to Richard Haddock, Chairman of the Conservative Rural Affairs Group as he pushes Owen Paterson to roll out the next ten cull zones, with continued shooting and the possibility of using the cheaper option of gassing badger setts as an option to what one can only call mass exterminate the badger population using the most advanced technology available. Vaccination is just not an option for the NFU to consider, even with an oral option expected within the next few years. The rush is on to eliminate Mr. Brock from the countryside and Mr. Haddock has commented on  the Wounded Badger Patrols and Somerset Badger Patrols as just a mere sides show and I assume that the over 3000,000 people that signed Brian May’s Save Me petition don’t matter either, they are just misguided idiots to be ignored!

However the cull can never succeed as ‘Middle England’ is against this cull and they have the support of the Scots, Welsh and Irish on this matter. You only have to had visited the cull zones to determine that people from all these countries are coming together to help ‘Middle England’ protect her badgers and why? Simply because it’s wrong and unjust and being carried out by an unelected feudal minority groups who are not accountable but have great exercise of power through their friends in government. If the next ten zones are rolled out then the police will have to start a massive recruitment drive as more and more people flock to join the Badger Patrols in Dorset, Devon, Cornwall, Hereford and Wilshire to name just a few. All this taxpayers’ money and police effort to appease an unelected and unaccountable Trade Organisation that goes by the name NFU who just want to shift the blame onto an iconic member of our natural environment and a star of many wildlife programs.

Why only the other day a government farm inspector who on her private Twitter account as home had tweeted critical animal welfare comments about the badger cull has been sacked after the NFU complained to ministers about her views. She had worked for the Rural Payments Agency (RPA) since 2001, visiting farms to ensure claims for agricultural grants were not being falsified! This is a win-win situation for the NFU as another anti-cull voice muted and fewer farm checks on them will be carried out!

The NFU have now joined the Countryside Alliance with the onslaught against the RSPCA and no one it seems is allowed to be the companionate voice of our wildlife. As the Countryside Alliance shooters bang away at wildfowl the RSPB is told to sod off with its comments regarding lead shot pollution and the RSPCA told to sod off and look after the cats and dogs on housing estates, you are not welcome in the countryside. Anyway the sheep you see limping are not lame but partaking in there funny walk now “Get off my bloody land you peasant”!

Golden Eagle Poisoned near Grouse Shooting Estate in Scotland

Wildlife Crime Officer with Dead Golden Eagle

Taunton the county town of Somerset is a hub of blood sports activity, with the Blackbrook location at the M5 J25, of critical interest as its home of the law firm Clarke Willmott which acts as agents for the Countryside Alliance. As lawyer Jamie Foster defends local hunting cases and is right next door to the NFU building. Also DEFRAs Animal Health and Veterinary Laboratories Agency (AHVLA) also use this location for its staff overseeing the badger cull, a truly vortex of a holy trinity of badger blood! I assume bath and bed at the Holiday Inn after a bloody night of Badger Burning!

Dead Badgers Burnt and not Tested for Bovine TB

Why Did They Need to Die?

It was several centuries ago that the church use to offer a penny reward for any dead foxes or badgers brought to the local clergy. The church was heavily into slavery also at that point in time. Now with the current Archbishop Justin Welby turning down the role of Vice Paton of the RSPCA we are now finding out the true reason for the abandonment of the RSPCA by the Archbishop. One can only assume that he was advised by his Eton chums at Westminster to step aside away from the RSCPA as it’s about to be destroyed by the heavily financed  and armed armies of the Countryside Alliance and the NFU.

What the NFU have instigated for the police in this process is a role to protect the killers of a protected species the badger. Is this perhaps the British Farming Industries greatest public relations disaster! 

The independence of the police is now called into question; Gloucestershire Constabulary has been partially affected and has probably undone many years of outreach effort engaging with local communities. Avon & Somerset has fared better but many will start to analyse the police actions and there closeness to the NFU. As I understand that at the nightly police briefings officers were given a list of vehicle registrations to look out for and conduct stop and search activities to impend the movement of Badger Patrols as these were the vehicles associated with people attending the Badger Patrols. This, I understand was to allow the NFU hired shooters to kill as many badgers as possible while patrol members were tied up with the police as they inspected the colour of lamps vehicles were using or the number or tires on each vehicle.

To have the NFU exert such control over police operations can only be a sign that our democracy is like the badgers blood seeping away from us. The NFU is nothing more that a Trade Association that seeks to fulfill the demands of rich farmers and so should have no control of our police forces.

Could This Be Some of the NFU Badger Cull Security?

The bovine TB crises is the direct result of the actions of DEFRA and the NFU where they have failed to manage the spread of bovine TB by refusing to invest and support vaccine programs for both badgers and cattle. For failing to implement good bio-security measures and implement an enforceable cattle movement regime and most critically failing to invest to improved TB testing, which is quite simply a joke within the industry. They have allowed the disease to seep into the surrounding wildlife population and now they want to scapegoat the badger, symbol of all the Wildlife Trusts. The shear arrogance to these people, culling badgers is a waste of time, money and precious life and will not work as the science has proved.

Perhaps now is the time for the NFU to instigate and pay for a nationwide badger vaccine program to repair the damage they have inflected onto the countryside. However I suspect that those so closely involved will blissfully allow the badger cull poison seep into the Conservative party. At least until someone realises that the support from ‘Middle England’ slowly slipping away, with Caring Conservatism totally at odds with Gassing Badgers and the ritual butchering of our native wildlife.

The Polluter Should Pay for the clean-up of the mess they made!