Badger Baiting Happening NOW

Dear All

Here is a quick post from an e-mail release I received today.  It looks like the battle is about to begin, if you are in the area or are able to get to the area PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE help the badgers.  The time for talking is over - NOW IS THE TIME FOR ACTION.

For the poor badger


The cut and paste is below:

URGENT – The Battle for badgers begins by NWHSA Battle for badgers begins October 20, 2012 Today the 20th of October, one of our teams in the Gloucestershire zone found two setts that had been pre-baited. We have the photos and we will disclose the names of the farms tomorrow. After making calls we found out that at 6.45pm on this Saturday night there are people working in Natural England, we can only assume that the licence and all the other logistics are in place and the cull is about to start, we have looked at a lot of setts today and there are only the two that have been pre-baited. With this in mind we now have to ask you all to get your waterproofs packed and start working out your work schedules, booking any time off from the 29th of October almost guarantees that you will be coming during the cull (if it is taking place) as the cull has to be finished by the end of November. Please remember that the biggest and hardest part for us is too work out accommodation, If you need help with this then you really do need to contact your local hunt sab group. We will update you with any information that we have as soon as we get it, we will be updating this page tomorrow with any news about other setts being pre-baited and we will put up a comprehensive list of all the things you should bring with you. We are watching the farmers We are watching setts We will protect the setts http://badger-killers.co.uk/battle-for-badgers-begins/ North West Hunt Saboteurs Association 07960 038230 www.nwhsa.org.uk info Blog - http://nwhsa.wordpress.com

Direct Action Against All Forms of bloodsports

Some Badger News from the HSA

Hi All

First of all I would like to thank the many people who are looking at my posts on this blog. 

Now down to business....

I was looking at the HSA website last night and noted the latest news from the actions against the badger cull, below is a cut and paste from the news:

Over 80 hunt saboteurs and anti-cull campaigners descended on Forthampton Estate near Tewkesbury today to show their disapproval at the proposed badger cull. The 3000 acre shooting estate covers 3% of the Gloucestershire cull zone and fully supports the cull. The saboteurs took full advantage of the estate's many footpaths to legally survey for badger setts as well as looking for evidence of the shooting industries guilty secrets and bad practices. They were followed by concerned, and occasionally aggressive, estate staff who were keen to keep them away from the game bird breeding facilities and release pens. The estate also had private security guarding key buildings. The police were out in force and even felt it necessary to send out their helicopter to keep an eye on events.

Lee Moon, spokesperson for the Hunt Saboteurs Association, stated: “Today was an exercise in showing the cost of being involved in the cull. No one broke the law or went anywhere they weren't allowed yet Forthampton estate felt the need to bring all their staff in on a Sunday and even employ extra security while the police were out in force to watch people strolling around the countryside. With so many footpaths Forthampton Estate, and many other landowners in the cull zones, will find it difficult to stop legal opposition to the un-scientific, immoral badger cull”

Doesn't the bold and underlined section make you gasp with shock?!...no...nor me! The police are out in force when it means sabs can be given a hard time or arrested.  Funny how you can get the required resources when needed, eh chief constables?!  Funny how the policing of hunts is very low.  Funny how hunts are getting away with murder.  Funny how the police are STILL APPLYING THE LAW on certain things and NOT when truly needed.

Let's not get above ourselves here, the police should remain 'unbiased and impartial' (which we know is a complete joke at times) and therefore like the automotons they are, will go to hassle decent people who are just trying to make the government realise that killing HUGE amounts of badgers will NOT SOLVE ANYTHING BUT MAKE THINGS WORSE; this has been proved from the first culls and scientific evidence.

Please if you are close by to the killing zones, go and help the badgers (legally of course!!!!) and show the government, DEFRA, Paterson, NFU, the police and the public that this cull is wrong, cruel, evil, unjustified and unscientific.

Because you have immoral idiots in charge of high powered weapons - please take care.

For the poor badger

Tesco Still Damning Badgers for £ Signs

Hi All

I e-mailed Tesco in order to ask them to join the right side in the badger fight only to be met by the usual crap from a large company which cares more for money than morals. The e-mail is transcribed below for you to have a look at.  I feel if we all pile on the pressure, they might -just-might see sense and stop buying from the disgusting filthy farmers who need to clean up their act and look much closer to home rather than looking for scapegoats.

Dear Mrs Barnes

Thank you for your reply. It saddens me that your company will not aid the plight of the badger cause and I'm afraid you are incorrect, with respect to the motives adopted by the government during the lengthy process of investigation.  The sheer amount of scientific evidence against the cull has not been heeded by the government and even Lord Kreb (the governmental adviser involved with previous badger culls) himself is against this cull as well as many animal organisations.  The public were consulted and responded VERY HEAVILY in favour of vaccination which the government completely disregarded thereby choosing culling only to appease the NFU.

Regretfully I (and my friends and family) will not be shopping at Tescos anymore and will continue to use other suppliers namely your competitors who are not in favour of the cull.

Yours

Mr ******************* MScBSc(Hons)AMInstP PGCE mRAS

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From: "customer.service@tesco.co.uk" <customer.service@tesco.co.uk>
To: **************************
Sent: Monday, October 8, 2012 5:03 PM
Subject: Re your recent enquiry

Dear ************** Thank you for your email about the Government's planned trials of badger culling.
We take animal welfare very seriously and we know it is very important to our customers. The planned cull is a difficult and sensitive issue, with animal welfare concerns on both sides of the debate. 
We are neither in favour, nor against any cull; this is a decision to be taken by the farmers in the affected areas. Bovine TB is a huge threat to both to the health of livestock and to the livelihoods of many beef and dairy farmers. We are committed to supporting British farmers through this challenging time and will retain our relationships with those who make the decision to participate in the cull.
The Government went through a lengthy process in coming to their decision to trial culling to help tackle the disease, consulting with the public and reviewing the scientific evidence to date. We do not think it is appropriate for us to question this process. However, we are keen to do what we can to help to address the spread of the disease through alternative measures. We are currently looking at ways our collaboration with the Dairy Centre of Excellence at the University of Liverpool might help with this, for example by sharing the latest research on herd health with our farmers.
Thank you again for taking the time to contact us and please let me know if I can be of any further help.
Kind regards

Rachel Barnes
Tesco Customer Service

For the hunted animal, enforcing the LAW and the poor badger.

Personalised Politics

Hi All

I have read a statement by the Hunt Saboteurs Association specifically with respect to the sab groups near the propsed culling areas where gun touting bastards are going to kill badgers for the next 4 YEARS.

The sheer volume of support for badgers and stopping the cull is so overwhelming that any right minded person would think to themselves "hang on, we could really be doing ourselves serious damage here", but not the Tories.

From http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/wildlife/9549301/Saboteurs-aim-to-wreck-first-badger-cull.html, some of the responses have been very good such as the ones depicted down below.

dodgethebullets
Today 08:59 PM

Do badgers give TB to cattle? Cattle give TB to cattle and there is a strong case for saying - cattle give TB to badgers. When badgers and Cattle in the same area have TB, it is not proof that the badgers infected the cattle. Very few badgers in fact have TB. Of those that have, fewer still are infectious. Infectious badgers or cattle pass the bacteria out through their urine, faeces, or even their breath. These bacteria can then be picked up by other animals. The scope for passing on the infection in pasture shared by badgers and cattle is clear, but as is pointed out above, tens of thousands of badgers killed in the last 30 years or so has to be looked at against the statistic that TB in cattle in the same period has increased.
At last we seem to have reached the stage where the decision-makers can see that all the killing has proved is that killing badgers is not the solution. Other issues that have to be addressed include the quality of animal husbandry practised by some farmers. If this is of a poor standard it can allow badgers into farm buildings, water troughs, cattle feed areas and so on.
http://epetitions.direct.gov.u...

dodgethebullets
Today 08:55 PM

In December 2005 the government announced new measures to tackle TB in cattle and this included a twelve week consultation on badger culling. The outcome was remarkable. There were 47,000 responses via letter and e-mail, thirteen petitions against a cull containing 12,100 signatures and there were 10,000 text messages. Of those numbers 4% of the total supported a cull, 0.4% were neutral, and 95.6% (45,415) were against a cull. Authoritative organisations such as The Mammal Society, Woodland Trust, The Royal Society, RSPCA, and Wildlife Trusts expressed their grave reservations about culling.
http://epetitions.direct.gov.u...



The SHEER amount of scientific evidence in which the government is flying in the face of, astounds me even being a tory government - I was so happy I didn't vote scum tory.  The Kreb's trials which went on for decades showed that badgers do not infect cattle with bovine TB.  Scientific paper after scientific paper has published results which state categorically that a cull will only make the situation worse and that vaccination is the best way forward.  Even when yours truly was out in the killing fields years ago to stop the trapping and shooting of badgers, one of our number's brother (who is a microbiologist) was approached by DEFRA about incubation times of bovine TB in soil because and I state what was said to the microbiologist from DEFRA members "we have not found anything to suggest that badgers give TB to cattle, so we are now thinking that it is (bTB) in the soil and lasts longer than anticipated".

The truly worrying factors in this report come from statements given by the fucking piece of shit minister in charge of murdering thousands of badgers PRO HUNT Owen "I even look like a badger baiter" Paterson

It was reported in the paper that "he hoped that the four-year pilot in Gloucestershire would lead to a nationwide cull".  Oh is it major tinitus or are fucking HUGE ALARM BELLS RINGING?!??!!?!? How the fuck can this prick say something like that and show he is only interested in finding a solution to the bovine TB problem?  The article also stated that "Mr Paterson is a long-standing advocate of culling, arguing that, as well as sparing cattle, killing can also save badgers from suffering the effects of TB. The minister, appointed earlier this month, kept two badgers, Bessie and Baz, as pets when he was a child", ah bless that's alright then isn't it?!  He liked badgers as a child - no doubt when he was first introduced into the sinister world of baiting them but now not so liking of them.  He was chosen earlier this month to fill the post of Environment Secretary and there is NO DOUBT WHY....because he is shittier than the collective sewerage system of this WHOLE COUNTRY.

He's pro culling, he hopes that badger culling will become nationwide and he is a pathetic lackie for David Bastaron to pull strings.

In the article it said that sabs and protesters will face charges made against them from the bum chums of the government - the police....NOW THERE'S A SURPRISE! I bet you £50 that the policing for the gun touting badger killers will be huge, why not the same against hunts breaking the law?!

And the final question rests with WHY?  An easy one to answer, THE TORIES HAVE ALWAYS AND WILL ALWAYS BE CONCERNED WITH PERSONALISED POLITICS - politics which serve them and their friends e.g. Cameron loves hunting - wants a law repeal. Minister for Education (good friend of Cameron) - Intent on running down stressed teachers and sacking them. Environment Minister - No idea about science but wants to kill badgers against overwhelming support for vaccination. The head of the hunt repeal committee - Cameron's father-in-law and master of foxhounds etc. the fucking list just goes on and on and on and on.

Badgers have lived in the countryside for at least hundreds (if not thousands) of years, why is bovine TB being flagged up now (recent times also going back a few decades)?  Could it be due to the fact that intensive farming is to blame (introduced decades ago)?  Could it be due to the fact that a lot of farms are in a total disgusting shit state and equally the animals?  Could it be due to the fact that farmers are lazy and do not know the meaning of animal husbandry?

STOP THE CULL LISTEN TO SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE - who is running this country?  Farmers or Government?

For the badger