Alick Simmons
Covers:
Animal Ethics and Animal Welfare (particularly of wildlife).
Amateur naturalist || Animal ethicist || Aspiring conservationist || Erstwhile veterinarian || Author of ‘Treated Like Animals’: tinyurl.com/5a3cut5p
Alick Simmons’s Journalist Portfolio
View as a grid'Killing badgers to control bTB is unethical'
Veterinary Record
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Alick Simmons argues that badger culling as a means to control bovine TB cannot be justified if considered using an established ethical framework.
Guest blog - Licensed Badger Killing; Ethical Considerations by Alick Simmons
markavery.info
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Alick Simmons is a veterinarian, naturalist and photographer. He lives in Somerset. He has written several guest blogs here: The Ethics of Animal Exploitation 1, 2, 3, 4 UK Guardians of Animal Welfare .
'Longer jail terms are unlikely to be effective'
Veterinary Record
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Alick Simmons is a veterinarian, naturalist and photographer based in Somerset. A Government bill to increase the maximum custodial sentence for animal welfare offences from six months to five years is currently grinding its way through parliament. 1 It has every chance of becoming law.
Guest blog - The Ethics of Animal Exploitation part 4 by Alick Simmons
markavery.info
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Alick Simmons is a veterinarian, naturalist and photographer. After a period in private practice, he followed a 35-year career as a Government veterinarian, latterly as the UK Government's Deputy Chief Veterinary Officer.
Guest blog - The Ethics of Animal Exploitation part 3 by Alick Simmons
markavery.info
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Alick Simmons is a veterinarian, naturalist and photographer. After a period in private practice, he followed a 35-year career as a Government veterinarian, latterly as the UK Government's Deputy Chief Veterinary Officer.
Guest blog - The Ethics of Animal Exploitation part 2 by Alick Simmons
markavery.info
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Alick Simmons is a veterinarian, naturalist and photographer. After a period in private practice, he followed a 35-year career as a Government veterinarian, latterly as the UK Government's Deputy Chief Veterinary Officer.
Guest blog - The Ethics of Animal Exploitation part 1 by Alick Simmons
markavery.info
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Alick Simmons is a veterinarian, naturalist and photographer. After a period in private practice, he followed a 35-year career as a Government veterinarian, latterly as the UK Government's Deputy Chief Veterinary Officer.
Guest blog - UK guardians of animal welfare by Alick Simmons
markavery.info
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Alick Simmons is a veterinarian, naturalist and photographer. After a period in private practice, he followed a 35-year career as a Government veterinarian, latterly as the UK Government's Deputy Chief Veterinary Officer.
Killing wild boars is unnecessary
The Guardian
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The National Trust's intention to kill the wild boar on one of its Wiltshire properties (Report, 20 November) is symptomatic of a growing tendency to de-risk every outdoor activity. This, despite there being almost no records of injuries to people. The outdoors is not a Disney theme park but somewhere to enjoy the natural world.
Extension of badger culling unfounded and unjustified
Veterinary Record
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After months of unexplained delays, Defra finally released figures for the numbers of badgers killed under supplementary licences in the two original 'pilot zones' in Gloucestershire and Somerset during 2017.1 Culling under the original four-year licences in these zones was completed in 2016.
Wild exaggerations do not help badger debate
Maidenhead Advertiser
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The debate over the control of bovine tuberculosis and the associated killing of badgers is one of the most polarised in modern times. It is important that the debate is well-informed and conducted using facts. It was disappointing, therefore, to read the comments made by Cllr Colin Rayner in your j...
Badger culling and the BVA
Veterinary Record
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The BVA continues to lend its support to the killing of badgers as part of the government's bovine TB control strategy in England, in spite of a lack of evidence for any beneficial effect following four years of badger controls in the original 'pilot zones', and the fact that serious concerns expressed by the BVA in relation to the policy remain unanswered.
End the secrecy over badger cull zones | Letters
The Guardian
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Thousands more badgers are to be killed in new and extended government-licensed control zones ( Huge rise in badger culling will see up to 33,500 animals shot, 12 September). The government believes badger killing will eliminate bovine tuberculosis but won't publish details of the zones, arguing public safety might be compromised.
Spare a thought for the poor old mole | Letters
The Guardian
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All of the methods of catching moles described in your article (The long read, 8 March) rely on the violent crushing of a sentient creature. Society wouldn't tolerate killing a dog in this way, yet moles have a nervous system similar to dogs' (and humans'), which strongly suggests they are capable of feeling pain and thus suffering.
Brexit: what does it mean for the veterinary profession?
Veterinary Record
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Alick Simmons , chair of the BVA's Brexit working group, discusses the implications of Brexit for the veterinary profession and the opportunities it might provide