Animal Aid (Free subscription) | 07/04/2008
The BBC today reports that DEFRA Secretary of State, Hilary Benn, will announce on Monday that he has decided against a cull of badgers in England to control TB in cattle. If the report is correct, Animal Aid wants to say a huge thank you to ...
Postman Patel (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
Yet again the petifogging EU bureaucrats are at work and by dint of hard slogging young Hilary Benn (Gemma Garrett thinks he's really dishy !) has managed to delay the consequences of the The EU Commission's Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health (Scofcah) who have recently voted by qualified majority for changes to the individual recording requirements for sheep and goats....
Ranting Stan (Free subscription) | yesterday
Watching Channel 4 News at 7 pm yesterday evening, I lost count of the number of times in which the expression "climate change" was used. We had Jon Snow talking to Hilary Benn about biofuels and the need to tackle "climate change" - yeah, bugger the fact that people can't afford to eat thanks to the 75% rise in fuel prices brought on by biofuels, what we need to do is tackle "climate...
thequacksoflife (Free subscription) | yesterday
Hilary Benn has opted not to cull Badgers. I am not qualified to comment on whether the cull is needed or not. My own view point stems that from the view we should not automatically be going out to kill something to solve our problem. Anyway Badgers are popular at the moment. You can watch them on the telly frolicking about. Farmers, who are a bit miffed, have an image as a miserable...
The Coffee House (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
image: biofuels protest outside Downing St., attended by The Coffee House earlier this year. Article Environment Secretary Hilary Benn said: “To tackle climate change we will need to develop new, cleaner fuels - but that doesn’t mean pushing forward indiscriminately on biofuels that may do more harm than good.” The UK is to slow its adoption of biofuels [...]
The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
Simon Hoggart: Hilary Benn has announced that he will not permit the culling of badgers to stop the spread of TB among cattle
PETA Europe's Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
We <3 Hilary Benn. And so will England’s badgers when they find out that their lives have been spared by the Environment Secretary. It’s a victory for the badgers as the government announced yesterday , they will not be issuing licences to cull badgers in England, and will instead focus on the more effective strategy of preventing bovine TB in cattle, by introducing a vaccination scheme....
Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
SOMETIME later today Hilary Benn, the Secretary of State for the environment, will rise in the House of Commons and announce that there will be no widespread cull of badgers
Global Features (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
The Secretary of State for , Hilary Benn, that he has decided against a cull of badgers in England to control TB in cattle. The decision came after protest actions last month with a and the owned by the National Farmers Union (NFU) and the Farmers Union of Wales (FUW). Mr Benn also has resounding public support for sparing badgers. A DEFRA public consultation on the issue received...
www.OSIR.org.in (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
... account of a world with too many people and too little food. The book was a Source: www.usnews.com Benn confirms TB cull rejection - BBC News The government will not issue licences to cull badgers to prevent cattle TB in England, Hilary Benn has confirmed. In a Commons statement, the environment secretary said that while a large-scale cull could improve the situation, it could...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
The Government today ruled out a cull of badgers to tackle the rising toll of TB in cattle. Environment Secretary Hilary Benn told the Commons that having a cull could end up making the disease worse and he was not prepared to take that risk. In a statement to MPs, he said vaccination would instead be made a priority, with an extra £20m invested over the next three years. A Bovine TB...
Channel 4 (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
... paying the price for misguided environmentalism or opportunist farmers? We'll be talking live to Hilary Benn on this and the wider context of the food debate at the G8, which is opening today. Jonathan Rugman is in Japan with G8 ministers who've been sitting down to a meal of superpower proportions. Bon sante!Read Jonathan Rugman's G8 Summit analysis .We ask . Equatorial Guinea: Simon...
BBC News (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
Environment Secretary Hilary Benn said: "What we are trying to get across is there is this complex relationship between what we buy, the amount, waste, the impact on climate change and the impact on our health."
Science - The Post Chronicle (Free subscription) | 07/05/2008
British Environment Secretary Hilary Benn's decision not to cull badgers throughout the country could be disastrous, farming officials say....
www.OSIR.org.in (Free subscription) | 07/04/2008
July 4 (Bloomberg) — European stocks fell, heading for a fifth weekly decline, on concern banks will post more writedowns and near-record oil prices will curb earnings at airlines. Banco Santander SA led financial firms lower after Goldman Sachs Source: www.bloomberg.com Hilary Benn faces farmer’s anger over aborted badger cull - Daily TelegraphEnvironment Secretary [...]
