In 1983 the Labour Party manifesto pledged to prohibit the use of snares in the UK.
Twenty three years later half of the MPs able to have signed the EDM 75 calling for a ban on snares.
Animals caught in snares can suffer horrific injuries and all too often die a slow painful death from strangulation, starvation or dehydration.
Furthermore, snares are an indiscriminate killer and can catch animals such as protected badgers and otters, domestic pets and livestock.
A Communicate Research Poll conducted in 2005 shows that 78 per cent of the public find the use of snares to trap and kill wild animals totally unacceptable.
May I please ask animal minded readers to write to the Right Honorable David Milliband MP, Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Nobel House, 17 Smith Square, London, SW1P 3JR and ask him which suitable alternatives have already been identified to use powers to be granted under the Animal Welfare Bill to bring about an end to this silent barbaric killer on our countryside.
Josephine Harwood Moor Park Avenue Bispham
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