Bristol Animal Rights Collective will be hosting a food and film night at the Kebele Community Co-operative in Easton on Tuesday 15th June to help raise awareness of the Welsh badger cull.
Join us for some yummy vegan food from 7pm, followed by a talk from Malcolm Clark of the Wiltshire Badger Group at 8pm and a wildlife documentary about badgers at 9pm. There will also be: petitions to sign, merchandise to buy and a chance to find out more about how to support the campaign against the badger cull, which is due to start this month. Suggested donation £3+ All proceeds to help the campaign against the Welsh badger cull.
The Welsh Assembly has decided to cull badgers in a large area of Pembrokeshire, in an attempt to curb increasing bovine TB outbreaks, despite scientific evidence proving it won't work. A seven year government trial in England found that killing badgers did not have a positive effect on the number of bTB outbreaks, and it some cases it appeared it may have made matters worse. Bad farming practices are to blame for this disease spiralling out of control. A backlog of incomplete cattle tests and the conditions in which cattle are kept for many months of the year, in dark, damp and overcrowed sheds are the real culprits. This disease could be reduced much more efficiently though improved welfare, thorough cattle testing, immunisation and stricter controls on cattle movements, but the farming industry is a powerful one, that does not wish to see the blame fall on it's own doorstep. Instead badgers are being scapegoated and will be killed in their thousands through cage-trapping and shooting in the Welsh countryside.