Badger Gassing

EDM number 61 in 2014-15, proposed by Alan Meale on 10/06/2014.
Categorised under the topics of Agriculture and environment, Animal welfare and Wildlife.

That this House is concerned by recent reports that the Government has been authorising secret trials gassing badger setts, even though its own earlier research has indicated that such methods regularly failed to work; notes that such practices were banned in England nearly three decades ago when they were found to be cruel, harmful and useless; and calls on the Government to cease all field trials of such methods immediately.

This motion has been signed by a total of 47 MPs.