‘One always knows that, when government Ministers resort to defending Ministry policy in the local press, they are losing the argument with Joe Public. So it came as no surprise to read in the Gloucester Echo the justifications for the highly unpopular badger cull as written by Owen Paterson, UK Minister for the Department of Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) – he who loves England’s green and pleasant land so much that, among other environmentally unfriendly practices, he sees climate change as a business opportunity, and wholeheartedly supports fracking and GM crops. And his and Defra’s arguments for killing badgers are, as ever, less than scientific.’
Read more: England’s Wildlife Killing Fields: H.M. Government’s Badger Culls Kill Scientific Honesty
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