Badger Cull

EDM number 509 in 2012-13, proposed by George Galloway on 12/09/2012.
Categorised under the topic of Animal diseases.

That this House opposes the mass cull of badgers; urges the Environment Minister to follow the lead of the Welsh Assembly by implementing a vaccination programme with increased levels of testing and improved bio-security as a more effective way to tackle bovinetuberculosis long-term; notes that vaccination is the more sustainable and humane solution which has already been shown to significantly reduce the potential transmission oftuberculosis and that the Department for Environment, Foodand Rural Affairs' own advisory body, Natural England, has said that it has little confidence in the cull delivering the predicted long-term benefits; and further urges the Minister to halt the imminent cull which could make the situation worse and lead to the badger population in some areas being entirely wiped out.

This motion has been signed by a total of 29 MPs.