In response to the new scientific paper published in Royal Society Open Science today, Natalie Bennett has re-iterated the Green Party’s call to bring an end to badger culling. She is quoted as saying:
“The Green Party has long said that the badger cull is cruel, ineffective in controlling TB in cattle, and unscientific, and here is a demonstration of particularly the last.”
“Policy should not be made, or continued, on the basis that ‘we must do something’, even if that something is known either to not work or be actively harmful. Yet that is the position the government is now in.”
“The science is clear that tackling biosecurity and testing in cattle is the only solution to this issue that is causing heartbreak and loss to so many farmers.”
“I repeat our calls for an immediate end to the killing of badgers in this terribly nature-depleted nation.”
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