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Related: About this forumBadgers should be gassed, says Princess Anne
Princess Anne has prompted more anger from animal welfare campaigners by calling for an end to a ban on gassing badgers.
The princess royal waded into the controversy over the badger cull by claiming that gassing the animals was the most humane way of tackling the rise of tuberculosis in cattle.
She made the remarks to the BBC's Countryfile programme to be broadcast on Sunday. In the interview Princess Anne also repeated a much-criticised call she made last year for horses to be farmed for their meat, according to the Radio Times.
Her latest comments were dismissed by experts as ill-informed and were rounded on by the animal rights lobby.
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/apr/04/badgers-should-be-gassed-princess-anne-cull
dorkzilla
(5,141 posts)Why can't the ill-informed keep their pie-holes shut?
muriel_volestrangler
(101,322 posts)as a 'humane' option.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Christopher_of_Hesse
Jeez, Thatcher's government banned it as inhumane.
catnhatnh
(8,976 posts)LeftishBrit
(41,208 posts)which is most things other than horse-riding and first-class air travel.
mackerel
(4,412 posts)apple doesn't fall far from the tree
pennylane100
(3,425 posts)and the bar for that honor is already below sea level.