Save our furry friends!

The pure stupidity and stubbornness of the British government never ceases to amaze me. 

Can someone please explain to me why, after seeing the alternatives and getting advice from dozens of scientists and experts, the government is still going to go ahead with its insane badger culling policy. A vaccine program is being developed while I type and scientists everywhere are not only saying that slaughtering 70% of Britain's badger population won't stop bovine TB, it may in fact make it worse. 

Maybe the conservatives are still sore about the banning of fox hunting and are trying to find a way of allowing people to mindlessly slaughter animals which can't fight back. after all, it's tradition- and tradition must be defended, no matter how inhumane and outdated it is.

The best way to reduce bovine TB is simply to make the area farmers graze their cows in more secure, so badgers can't get in. Thousands of healthy badgers are going to be killed, for seemingly no reason at all.

please if you read this, sign the petition. If we make our voice loud enough maybe the government will be able to hear it through all that jingling in their pockets .

http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/38257

 UPDATE 

 Looks like the cull has been put off for a year. Hopefully that will be enough time for either the government to come to its senses or an effective vaccine program to be developed. I'm gunna go with the latter.