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Local MP and animal welfare campaigner Angela Smith has today Condemned the government over its proposals to license farmers to allow them to shoot badgers.
Commenting, Angela said,
There is no doubt Bovine TB has a devastating effect on farmers' herds and their livelihoods, and I understand how desperate those affected are for something more to be done.
However, the use of badger culling as a means of dealing with bovine TB has already been tried and based on these trials, the Independent Scientific Group concluded that ‘badger culling cannot meaningfully contribute to the future control of cattle TB.’
“While shooting badgers may make ministers feel that they are doing something useful, it is not the way to beat this disease. In fact it could possibly make matters worse.”
Vaccination of cattle and/or badgers is potentially a better way
Last Updated ( Friday, 17 September 2010 09:45 )
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I put on the record once again the declarations of non-financial interests that I made in Committee.
As we made clear in Committee, many of the clauses in part 2 of the Bill depend for their validity on clause 26, which we have just discussed. We were assured then that the Government would think again about that clause, but the consequence of their rethink appears to be a loosening of the gag, and a gag is still a gag. Therefore, the Bill could still have a chilling effect on the third sector and is still, in effect, a gagging Bill designed to insulate the governing parties from the challenges that are always part of a healthy democracy. As we have just heard in the debate on clause 26, the Government’s amendments still leave the third sector and the Electoral Commission facing a great deal of uncertainty and ambiguity, which, combined with the measures in clause 27, will effectively dampen the third sector’s campaigning activity.
The Opposition have said repeatedly that we support taking the big money out of politics and having sensible controls on the money spent by third parties. We said that on Second Reading and in Committee. Earlier this afternoon my hon. Friend the Member for Liverpool, West Derby (Stephen Twigg) reiterated the big fi