Powdered wombat guts and other sources of feelings of wellbeing
Posted in Misc on Jul 4th, 2008
The BBC reports: The government has decided that culling badgers in England to control the spread of bovine tuberculosis won’t work. Predictably, the National Farmers’ Union is outraged and is threatening court action and a demonstration next week.
This morning I read the report of an independent study group set up by the government to look [...]
Posted in Misc on Oct 27th, 2007
In the last week there has been a bit of a stink in the British media for and against killing badgers. That’s right, badgers. Not foxes.
Foxhunting, the unspeakable in pursuit of the inedible, as Oscar Wilde called it, is still controversial and highly circumscribed. Badgers, however, are completely protected by law.
The nearest I’ve been to [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 17th, 2007
The Telegraph has a nice picture of a couple of badgers among some bluebells here (now imagine meeting this strikingly handsome animal on a moonlit path at night).
The accompanying story, however, is a sorry one. Cattle farmers, as always, want to slaughter badgers to control tuberculosis in cattle. We only want to “cull the sick [...]
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