It has made the top 40 in the iTunes download chart and is the most popular track in the iTunes store top 10 rock chart. Blessed said: "Brian May is absolutely inspirational and together we will beat the dark forces and save the badgers." Around 5,000 of the animals are expected to be killed in controlled shootings over six weeks in Somerset and Gloucestershire. Supporters say the cull is needed to tackle bovine TB, which can be spread from infected badgers.
Those against the cull, including the RSPCA and wildlife organisations, say it is ineffective and inhumane. May said: "The British people are speaking in their many thousands, and yet the government is refusing to listen. We thank them for buying this track and giving the badgers a voice. Let's get this to number one so [David] Cameron cannot avoid it. This cull is unscientific, unethical and won't work.
YouTube link. Rap version by Dan Bull.
"The government is set to murder 5,000 badgers and yet all the peer-reviewed scientific evidence shows that the answer to the problem of bovine TB in cattle does not lie in this slaughter and that this action will be ineffective and potentially damaging to the welfare of both farm animals and wildlife. It is shocking that the NFU and the government have been allowed to continue with a politically led policy with no basis in science against the will of the people."
Team Badger website.
2 comments:
"The government is set to murder 5,000 badgers..."
If the science supports their case why resort to such misleading, emotive nonsense? Not doing themselves any favours, imo.
I agree with you, BoS.
But when you're up against the giant Tory party misinformation propaganda machine, sometimes emotive language is the only way of getting your 'small' voice heard.
Just the other day Owen Paterson, the thoroughly unpleasant Environment Secretary, was spouting off that a vaccine was several years away, so culling is the only option.
Yet badgers are already being vaccinated in Wales.
Someone's not telling the truth.
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