Wildlife Betrayed by Farmers ?
On April 17th, ITV news and S4C revealed that some farmers are taking the law into their own hands on TB in cattle and carrying out a mass illegal slaughter of badgers.
The local badger group, Badger Watch and Rescue Dyfed was horrified when the man interviewed on television stated that he was being called in by farmers to wipe out badgers.
As scientists have already said, badger culling 'cannot meaningfully contribute to the control of cattle TB in Britain' and the Welsh government is putting in place a vaccination scheme for badgers against TB.
It seems unbelievable that farmers should get away with carrying out such a senseless and cruel operation.
It is also most disturbing when Plaid Cymru AM Elin Jones stated in the Welsh Assembly recently that 'farmers will now have to decide how best to protect their cattle and I for one would not blame them for anything they do'.
As TV reveals that an illegal incident, killing a protected animal, is being carried out on farms, surely that AM has to be asked, does she support this illegal killing of badgers, and further more the TV programmes should answer the question, who is the man on TV carrying out this illegal killing of a protected species, badgers?. We are sure the police would be interested to know.
Michael Sharratt Badger Watch and Rescue Dyfed Whitland
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