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What's A Few Badgers Between Friends?
So, they're rolling out a badger cull trial in Gloucester...
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... And there will be protests, naturally. Will you be joining them? Or do you think the cull trial is worthwhile?
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... And there will be protests, naturally. Will you be joining them? Or do you think the cull trial is worthwhile?
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The badger is an indigenous species (what kind of nations cull their own wildflife?) and their numbers are not an issue at all - most of us only see them dead on the road. Cannot be compared with deer as their population has grown massively because of introduced species such as Sika. This is just the easy way out for farmers. I think it stinks.
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No, cattle vaccines are about 10 years away
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that happened to my aunt too, Dot, surgery was part of the solution to TB in those days, so they could then remove the lung. She lost three quarters of a lung and then married a fellow patient who'd lost one and a quarter, so they had just the two lungs between them. The marriage lasted for many years until he drove into a tree, though.
I don't know if this is a practical treatment for badgers, however. Although it might be simpler just to cull the cattle, I suppose the farmers would only join the protests.
I don't know if this is a practical treatment for badgers, however. Although it might be simpler just to cull the cattle, I suppose the farmers would only join the protests.
"We" weren't being precious, I was apparently.
As far as I'm concerned there has been absolutely no definitive proof that badgers pass TB to cattle, in fact I've seen suggestion that cattle pass it to Badgers. I just find it abhorrent that killing them is accepted as a way to resolve an unproved problem - typical men all of you.
As far as I'm concerned there has been absolutely no definitive proof that badgers pass TB to cattle, in fact I've seen suggestion that cattle pass it to Badgers. I just find it abhorrent that killing them is accepted as a way to resolve an unproved problem - typical men all of you.
By the mid-1970s the evidence that badgers played a significant role in infecting cattle was sufficiently strong that the UK Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAFF) began to kill badgers in areas where it was judged that they posed a threat to the health of cattle. This policy was highly controversial. Firstly, because the role of badgers in transmitting TB to cattle was not conclusive, and secondly because the badger is a protected species, and in addition many people considered the method of killing, using poison gas, to be unacceptable. Although gassing of badgers was subsequently halted on humane grounds, the effects of mass culling of badgers on the incidence of TB in cattle was monitored in some detail in certain areas. It was found that the number of cases of TB in cattle fell sharply during and after the badger-removal period, but eventually started to increase again after the culling of badgers was stopped. This was further evidence that TB infection in badgers plays a significant role in the spread of the disease to cattle.
Thats from here if you want to read it all:
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Thats from here if you want to read it all:
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> Meat from cattle slaughtered after testing positive for bovine tuberculosis (bTB) is being sold for human consumption by Defra, the food and farming ministry has said. <
> "The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has confirmed there are no known cases where TB has been transmitted through eating meat and the risk of infection from eating meat, even if raw or undercooked, remains extremely low." <
from sky news report
> "The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has confirmed there are no known cases where TB has been transmitted through eating meat and the risk of infection from eating meat, even if raw or undercooked, remains extremely low." <
from sky news report
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