Blocking of Welsh badger cull ‘a severe setback’

A LEGAL ruling blocking a badger cull in Wales is a “severe setback” for tackling bovine TB which has blighted livestock farmers in Devon, according to the National Farmers’ Union.

The NFU said that the quashing of the controversial order by the Court of Appeal would be a “very bitter pill” for many farmers.

Details of the judgment, which upheld an appeal by the Badger Trust against the Welsh Assembly’s plans to trap and shoot badgers in West Wales, are now being studied closely for their implications for a targeted cull in England.

It is expected that Devon would be included in any badger cull as it is a “hot spot” for bovine TB.


Western Morning News

Blocking of Welsh badger cull ‘a severe setback’

All this judgement has done is just prove that the law is an ass, and all those involved in pleading for the badger, believe that a badger has a greater right to life (or miserable death) than any other mammal.

Charles Henry 1945-(diuturnity)

The Crime of 2010 A.D. by ERIC PRICE.
(Retired Editor of the Western Daily Press)

First Published W/E 18th. August 1995

It is the year 2010, and the recently established Bristol Traffic Court is in session. A sharply dressed man in his early forties is arraigned before three magistrates.

“You are charged,” says the chairman, fussy, portly and balding, “of driving a car through the centre of Bristol without a permit, contrary to the provisions of the 2009 Traffic (Pollution Act). Do you plead guilty or not guilty?”

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