Culling badgers is State sponsored savagery

In the animal cruelty industry, words are employed as a verbal cover for barbaric acts of animal cruelty.

Culling badgers is State sponsored savagery

The Department of Agriculture recently put out to tender the supply of 25,000 units of ‘Packaging Solution for Biological Material’ as part of their equipment list in the campaign to rid the country of bovine TB. In simple English these are body bags to carry the bodies of executed badgers.

This is the fate of up to 6,000 badgers within the next 12 months as the department ramps up its programme of culling badgers.

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