Poor Old Badger

I have written about the misguided attempts to control bovine TB before. Killing the Badgers will not work.
If the farmers and the government want to eliminate TB why not look at animal husbandry first? Intensive farming is probably weakening the the immunity of our livestock.

We are also transporting cattle over long distances in the UK and this is an easy way to spread diseases.

Badgers are not the only animals that harbour bovine TB. It is also harboured by rats, rabbits and deer. Even if we wipe out every other sentient being in the countryside bovine TB will remain. What sort of solution is this?

It is time to take the cowboy boots off and replace them with wellingtons. It is time to stop shooting from the hip.


Culling badgers quite rightly upsets a lot of people. But to the protesters I say this - "let the culling go ahead as it will fail and some other rational solution will be have to be found". To attack the farmers involved in the culling  is wrong and inhumane too and will not prevent the spread of bovine TB.

Unfortunately thousands of Badgers will have to sacrificed before commonsense prevails.



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