Mary's Blog

Badger’s paying the price of Britain’s milk factory system.
Photograph: Ben Birchall/PA

At last this Governments’ Environment Agency has listened to the vast majority of people throughout the South West. Its hugely unpopular cull of Britain’s best known animal – Brock the Badger – has been called off.

We nature lovers must thank Brian May and his consistent bombardment of the Environment Minister’s Agency with facts that were being ignored until NOW.

Many farmers disagreed to the cull and they must be applauded too. They claim that some breeds of fine cattle are bred without their natural immunity that used to protect them. It’s up to farmers to keep their herds clean and free from infection, rather than this mass slaughter just because some farmers cannot cope with the extra effort. Cattle these days are just a pawn in a milk factory system that governs the price of milk!

So to those farmers that support the cull, clean up your farms – don’t provoke the slaughter of wildlife that has the same right to life as your factory bred dairy cows.