Queen Guitarist Brian May Opposes Welsh Badger Cull
Written by Vegetarian Star on Friday, March 26th, 2010 in Animal Issues, Male Musicians, Male Singers.
Queen guitarist Brian May is opposing the practice of culling badgers in West Wales as a method to prevent Bovine TB.
Although the Welsh Assembly is convinced the cull will help control the outbreak of TB in cattle, May says the decision is based on bad science.
“This would be genocide,” May, a doctorate in astronomy, said. “To me, countries do not matter; badgers are not British, they belong to the world and they belong to everyone.”
He compared the culling to solving the problem of disease in cattle to eradicating smallpox by killing people with certain hair colors.
“Anyone would think that doing that was insane, but that is what we are proposing to do to badgers.”
Dr. Christianne Glossop, the chief veterinary officer for Wales, defends the practice, citing the costs involved with the bovine TB crisis during the last decade.
The plan is to limit the cull to an area where 42% of cattle farmers had an outbreak of bovine TB.
Previous badger culls revealed less than 2% of the creatures were actually infected with the disease and some experts believe that cattle to cattle transmission may be primarily responsible for the outbreak.
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