Animal sentience bill - will Badger cull continue?

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Elizabetn Thirsk

Dear Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs,
We have an animal sentience bill now. The Badger cull is inhumane and ill informed, how will this continue? If 21 out of 184 Badgers were not shot properly or collected when monitored by natural England, what do you think the actual number of inhumane shooting is? How can this continue? Badgers trapped in cages for hours, again inhumane, how will this continue? Do you plan on ever gathering relevant scientific evidence to justify the cull?

Yours faithfully,

Elizabeth Thirsk

SM-Defra-Helpline, Defra (MCU), Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs



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