They are even dafter than I feared
I WAS almost delighted to hear Owen Paterson reaffirm that badger culls will happen in early summer and David Heath also said so at the Oxford Farming Conference. So they are even dafter than I'd feared.
Not surprising since the last full-scale debates in Parliament were well-meaning but spectacularly ill-informed.
Sadly, the proposed pilot badger culls/vaccinations are almost entirely based on the highly selective pseudoscientific findings of the RBCT or Krebs culling trial with after-effects apparently even in 2011, six years after the cull ended, removing a mere 311 TB badgers from reactive areas and 1,204 from proactive widespread culls.
That's 1,515 out of 11,000 culled in an area of 1,900sqkm.
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Martin Hancox, ex-Government Badger TB Panel, Stroud
2 Comments
by Douglasknows
Wednesday, February 13 2013, 11:29AM
“Could the horses also be effected by TB?, wouldn't want that in the food chain too!”
by Clued-Up
Wednesday, February 13 2013, 11:15AM
“Paterson and Heath have lost even more of their personal credibility over their slow, ineffective response to the horsemeat scandal. Ensuring the safety of food comes under their remit. What the government has done and allowed to be done (eg changing the role of the Food Standards Agency, abolishing the national equine database etc) has dramatically increased the risk of adulterated, possibly dangerous food.
These "lame duck" ministers may be out of their jobs come the summer.
If the government's any sense at all, it won't be trying to mount badger slaughter programmes in the face of the near universal opposition to the cull. It would be particularly stupid of them to go ahead, given all the other problems it's landed itself with around the same time (eg the homelessness and debt fallout from the bedroom tax and the council tax levies on the poorest, the collapse of its Work Programme, the flatlining of the economy and so on).”