I’m not the type of person that
can say silent when something is happening that I disagree with. I have to speak, take action, do
something. I am not a part of the silent
majority. I believe that in order to
invoke change, you need to do something about it. Staying silent gets you nowhere.
Some may say what can one person do? What change can you hope to effect on your
own? Well, on my own, not much, but in a
collective of similar minds, a lot.
The change I want to effect is to
quash the badger cull which is due to take effect in June 2013. For those who aren’t aware, the Government
originally planned the cull last year, in an effort to bring TB under control.
After over 150,000 signed a
petition against the cull, scientists confirmed that a badger cull would not
help matters and indeed would make it worse, the MPs voted and with a majority
of 147 to 28 voting against the cull.
Despite all of this, the Goverment has now done an aboutface and rescheduled the cull.
I can’t help but think that the
badger is merely the scapegoat for the fox.
Foxhunting is now illegal and Mr Cameron’s friends need something to
shoot. Why when faced with public
opinion, it’s own MPs voting against and the scientific community asking that
this cull be stopped, is it still going ahead?
I, like many many others have
posted the E-Petition link on Twitter, on Facebook, and now I add it to this
blog. There are nearly 170,000 signatures
now on the petition. Don’t look at it as
“There are enough people on there that have signed, I won’t bother”. That is exactly the same as if you had looked
at the petition at it’s inception and said “There are only a couple of
signatures, I won’t bother”.
Please bother, please sign,
please don’t be a part of the silent collective that watch as things
happen.
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