Blue Badger at the Conservative Conference 2012
We introduced the new Blue Badger campaign personally to David Cameron at the Conservative party conference earlier this week in Birmingham. We also spoke to Theresa May, Philip Hammond and Owen Patterson, The Secretary of State at Defra. We talked to over 25 Conservative MPs individually at the conference about the badger cull. We put forward the scientific arguments against the badger cull.
We promoted the Blue Fox logo and our messages against repeal, support for a close season for hares and vaccination for badgers and cattle on the 200 plasma screens throughout the conference amounting to our message being shown through 20,000 transactions over the four days duration of the conference.
Dr Brian May of Queen and Founder of Save Me visited the Conservative conference with Anne, his Ceo and together with the League Against Cruel Sports , IFAW and Blue Badger we all worked together as Team Badger- www.teambadger.org ( the coalition of leading animal welfare organisations against the badger cull)to raise the badger cull issue to as many MPs and the media at the conference as possible.
Please contact your MP and ask them to support vaccination for badgers and cattle and not a badger cull which will be ineffective in eradicating Bovine TB in cattle. Please do this as soon as possible as the badger cull is imminent .
Sign the e petition here which now has over 150,000 signatures:
The government’s plans to license the shooting of many tens of thousands of badgers will not solve the problem of bovine tuberculosis in cattle. It will decimate our badger populations, and cause huge suffering to many thousands of individual badgers.
Scientists who conducted the largest ever study into the issue, the Randomised Badger Culling Trial (RBCT) concluded that “badger culling can make no meaningful contribution to cattle TB control in Britain”.
Killing badgers is not the solution. It will not help farmers and is a false hope.
All efforts must be focussed on reducing cattle-to-cattle transmission and on producing viable vaccines for both cattle and badgers. This is the way forwards. For our sister site against the badger cull please click on www.bluebadger.org
The Co Founder of Blue Badger( and also Conservatives Against Fox Hunting) with Dr Brian May of rock band Queen with David Amess MP and the Deputy Chair of New Forest Conservatives at the Birmingham Conservative party conference
