Who would you cull?
This is a badger, doing badger stuff. I
don't know they do, but they do it at night, they've been doing
whatever it is they do a long time, and they cause a lot less damage
than our species:
This is the secretary of state for the
environment, Owen Patterson:
He trained for the post by getting a
degree in history (not anything remotely environmental) and went on
to career in the leather tanning industry (that well-known source
of pollution upholder of environmental concerns).
Defending his badger cull in parliament
he said this:
[the reason for the low numbers culled
is] “screamingly obvious, badgers are wild animals that live in an
environment [see how he's cleverly worked a reference to the
environment in there] in which their numbers are impacted by
weather and disease”.
Unfortunately
for the history-leather-politics-man, there's these guys out there with degrees and careers in
environmental matters, and they disagree. It isn't screamingly
obvious at all, they say. The only thing that's screamingly obvious is that
Patterson's doing his best to bullishly defend the omnishambles he's
presided over. The environment guys said:
There's
been no decline in carefully monitored badger populations in
Gloustershire and Oxfordshire. Where the weather and environment is remarkably similar to that in the pilot areas.
They
also said:
Problems
with the cull risk making bovine tuberculosis worse rather than
better.
So,
you're pointing the gun, what do you do?
Give
Patterson both barrels or save one for the next one in the queue for
the post?
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