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Tory MP Calls For More Wild Animals To Be Killed (plantbasednews.org)

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A UK Conservative MP has said “all wild animals” should be culled in response to conservation groups calling for an end to the badger cull.

Richard Drax, MP for South Dorset, made the comments at a debate on farming in the House of Commons. He said that culling badgers has been proven to help stop the spread of bovine tuberculosis (bTB) between farmed cows.

“Can I suggest that rather than talking about stopping culling on badgers and to introduce some other form, that all wild animals have to be culled,” he said. According to Drax, this is because animals such as deer and foxes have no natural predators in the UK, causing their health to “deteriorate.” He added: “We don’t want to wipe them out, we just simply want them controlled.”

More than 210,000 badgers have been killed since the cull began in England in 2013, according to the Badger Trust. The Badger Trust says the cull has not been effective in containing bTB, but the government disputes this.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

A few years ago. One of London universities released a list of people paid out for losing a slave when the uk abolished slavery.

The data shoked people. Becausebit made it pretty clear. It would be pretty difficult to find anyone who's family was in the UK at that time. Who was not descended from someone who owned slaves.

Not by any means just the very wealthy. By that point in the UK. Lower middle class poeple were buying slaves they never saw. And renting them to plantations in other territories.

Slave ownership was treated very much like buying rental houses is now. With companies specialised in managing them abroad. And everyone with any spare money investing it in slaves while having no direct contact with the slaves or the people renting them.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Where could I find this list please?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

OK 20m was paid out. Loan was finally paid of in 2015.

The bamk of England has records for about 8m in 15000 transactions. Will link below.

But the London uni has most of the rest in there library. Its accessible but takes some time. It is published somewhere online.

The reason we don't see it all in the bank of England. Well things don't change much.

A whole industry sprung up to manage encouraging small investors to claim. So the docs are scattered among 1000s of different company books. Etc.

https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/working-paper/2022/the-collection-of-slavery-compensation-1835-43#:~:text=While%20slave%2Downers%20were%20the,through%20their%20roles%20as%20intermediaries.