LONDON: The campaign gathered at the British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Central London office on Monday, urging him to save the condemned Alpaca called Geronimo.
Dozens of protesters joined the March to Downing Street from the Ministry of Agriculture, checking doubts about the accuracy of positive tests that showed Geronimo had TB bovine.
More than 80,000 people have signed a petition to stop Geronimo born by New Zealand as a result, with the owner Helen Macdonald maintains that two tests have returned false positives and demanded the third test.
Macdonald has vowed to prevent government veterinarians be ordered to carry out the planned euthanasia, with Geronimo’s fate making headlines in Newspapers for days.
Johnson’s father, Stanley, also gave his support, called the Cull planned “absurd” and “murder task”.
The demonstrators would be accompanied by several Alpacas on their march through Westminster, but they were not brought through security issues.
Signs of protests detained outside the Street Downing Read “justice for geronimo” and “retest not death”.
One protesters told AFP: “(Geronimo) actually passes a more sensitive test but they (the government) just ignores it.” He got 100 percent biosecurity and there was no evidence showing that he was related to TB.
“The neighborhood of the Secretary of George Eustice, a former farmer, said he sympathized with Macdonald, a veterinarian and Alpaca farmer who owned the farm in Gloucestershire, Western England.
But he defended the ministry using” very specific and reliable tests “and geronimo must be placed.
Macdonald had previously lost court challenges from the verdict.