Now badgers will die slowly
ARE the badger lobbyists pleased that lots of badgers will now die slow blood-coughing TB deaths?
Farming has spent 57 years compulsorily slaughtering any cattle with a strong antibody to TB.
The kill results prove it, "the so-called test is a farce". After 57 years of complying with these rules, cattle are now more susceptible to TB than they were when we started testing in 1950 and all we get is more red tape.
It has added £60 plus to sell a dairy replacement heifer, now for a milk shortage. It costs more to market a Friesian bull calf than it's worth. And they say the world needs food.
Defra, MP Mr Hilary Benn, I hope you can make grass palatable to humans, it's our only always green equal to rain forests, to lower your carbon footprint.
GF Martin
Saul
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by Angus Macmillan, Balloch
Friday, September 26 2008, 6:56PM
“Mr Saul takes the hacked out illogical stance that killing wildlife to prevent them dying is the solution for badgers.
All wildlife dies at sometime or another, generally from accidents, predation or disease with the last two being entirely natural.
The idea that badgers should be culled has little to do with concern for the animals themselves of for the cattle they might infect or who infect them. It's all about money.
The simple answer is to vaccinate the cattle and let wildlife populations build up resistance to disease over time.”
by Angus Macmillan, Balloch
Friday, September 26 2008, 9:40AM
“Mr Saul takes the hacked out illogical stance that killing wildlife to prevent them dying is the solution for badgers.
All wildlife dies at sometime or another, generally from accidents, predation or disease with the last two being entirely natural.
The idea that badgers should be culled has little to do with concern for the animals themselves of for the cattle they might infect or who infect them. It's all about money.
The simple answer is to vaccinate the cattle and let wildlife populations build up resistance to disease over time.”
by Jayne, Tewkesbury
Thursday, September 25 2008, 3:26PM
“In one poll after another the vast majority of the British people have clearly stated that they are against the culling of badgers and that they don't believe that it prevents TB in cattle. Many renound scientists agree, but you are unlikely to see them quoted in pro-culling publications.”
by Cliffrat, Stroud
Sunday, August 31 2008, 8:38AM
“Odd how it's awful to let badger die slowly after being given TB by cattle - and the current testing mess cannot prove transmission either way - but to be praised when a strident, class-hate minority stop fox hunting allowing sick foxes to die slowly and painfully or for all foxes to be killed if they get in the way now they are no longer of any use. Need a consistent approach here and the real answer is of course to vaccinate cattle, after which it might be clear if the TB in badgers increases, dereases or stays constant. At the moment all we have are figure showing that if all badgers are culled in an area sometimes the cattle TB goes up and sometimes it goes down.”
by Max, Gloucestershire
Saturday, August 30 2008, 1:57PM
“Well said Ian, what a ridiculous argument GF Martins put forward. Absolute rubbish”