Badger cull protesters will hit the streets of Hounslow tomorrow (Friday, May 30).
Campaigners are due to stop off in Hounslow High Street after completing the penultimate leg of a 10-day, 112-mile walk from Gloucester to Westminster.
The marchers - including a 64-year-old man with Parkinson's on a mobility scooter - aim to arrive at the junction of Hounslow High Street and Bell Road, outside Iceland, by late afternoon.
They will hand out leaflets offering alternatives to what they describe as a 'barbaric, unscientific' policy, before setting off for Westminster at 9am the following morning.
The Government gave the go-ahead in 2011 for culls in West Gloucestershire and West Somerset, which it claimed would help curb the spread of TB among cattle. The latest six-week period during which farmers can kill badgers will begin this Saturday (May 31).
A report by an independent panel of experts, published in April this year , concluded that the culls to date had removed too small a proportion of the badger population to be effective and were inhumane because too many badgers took more than five minutes to die.
March organiser Julie Buxton said: "The Great Badger Trail shows the determination of the people in the Stop the Cull movement. We will stop the badger cull and show how brutal and cruel this barbaric, unscientific policy is.
"The continued slaughtering of a protected species, in the name of a disease it is not responsible for spreading, is not acceptable in a civilised society.
"As recent evidence from Wales shows, increased bio-security and vaccination is the solution and this is the message that the walkers will be spreading as they travel to Westminster. We'll welcome anyone en route to come and join us, walk for a bit or just have a chat."
