Sir, – I see that the Department of Agriculture will continue to issue licences to cull badgers in the belief that this will control bovine TB. The methods used to achieve this are cruel and barbaric and inflict great suffering on these animals. The same department is in the process of issuing a new Animal Health and Welfare Bill which prohibits cruelty to all animals. How can it reconcile its attitude to one species of animal and yet produce a cruelty to animals Bill? It would appear some animals are not as equal as others. – Yours, etc,
JOHN MADDEN,
Stameen,
Drogheda,
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Co Louth.