Plaid AM calls for withdrawal of insensitive language
Plaid Cymru AM Dr Dai Lloyd has demanded that the badger trust withdraw insensitive and inflammatory comments comparing the measures to combat the spread of bovine TB to the organised persecution and extermination of an ethnic group, particularly Jewish people.
Dai Lloyd was referring to comments made by a representative of the badger trust who described the cull of badgers as a ‘brutal pogrom’.
Dai Lloyd, Plaid AM for South Wales West said:
“It is despicable that somebody would use such emotive language in such an insensitive and inflammatory manner. A pogrom is an organised persecution or extermination of an ethnic group, especially of Jewish people. I have no doubt that these comments will have caused distress and offence to the countless numbers of people whose families have suffered from persecution and ethnic cleansing.
“Nobody takes any pleasure in having to institute these measures. However as the number of cattle being slaughtered due to this epidemic moves into the tens of thousands, the Minister is taking appropriate, long term action to safeguard the health and welfare of both our national cattle herd and of our wildlife.
“The Badger Trust should withdraw their insensitive and inappropriate comments immediately.”
