Somerset Badger Patrol awarded a 'carrot of shame' to Taunton Deane MP Rebecca Pow at the anti-badger cull rally held in Taunton this weekend.
During a speech at the protest Adrian Coward of Somerset Against the Badger Cull accused the government of sanctioning badger culling as a symbolic carrot to farmers.
He said he had planned to award the carrot to Conservative MP Mrs Pow in person had she been in attendance.
Mr Coward cited the fact that the government had continued with the culls in spite of evidence from an Independent Expert Panel appointed by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) which described the cull as ‘inhumane and ineffective’.
"It is our intention to award this carrot to whoever we see fit, so whenever you see this carrot appearing, you know it's for somebody who is not on our side," he said.
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