The badger cull is about to start in North Pembrokeshire in an attempt to eliminate bovine tuberculosis in a limited area. Any protest about this is futile and will not succeed in preventing the cull. It would be better to sit and wait and watch the experiment fail. As I have said before the reason why the disease is called bovine tuberculosis is because it is mainly a disease of cattle who spread it to one another; the infection of mammals including badgers and human beings is accidental. The real reasons for the spread of the disease are increased cattle movements and poor animal husbandry. Some of the dairy farms in North Pembrokeshire are practicing very intensified farming , the stressed cattle simply have reduced resistance to disease.
There is no need for a badger cull; the incidence of this disease can be greatly reduced by use of vaccines and improved animal husbandry.
It is obvious that mankind needs to live in some kind of harmony with nature. If we continue to have the attitude that any possible animal or plant competitor should be eliminated,we might go too far and eliminate some of the species which are essential to our own survival. The world may then be left to survive with bacteria, cockroaches,and "weeds" but without us.
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