Badger cullBadger cullThere is a short consultation period then a trial of shooting badgers.
If you are against or want to know more [url=Badger cull]click[/url]. Dance caller. http://mo-dance-caller.blogspot.co.uk/p/what-i-do.html
Sunny Clucker enjoyed Folk music and song in mid-Cheshire Re: Badger cullMo your link isn't working and I don't know what site you are referring to.
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(¸.✰´¨(¸.✰ Manda Living our version of the Good Life with 1 dog (who feels like we're living with 4!), 1 cats, a few sheep and 11 chooks. Don't get your knickers in a knot..it solves nothing ~ just makes you walk funny Re: Badger cullSorry, I mucked that up proper! http://38degrees.org.uk/campaigns
It's 38degrees who are campaigning. Dance caller. http://mo-dance-caller.blogspot.co.uk/p/what-i-do.html
Sunny Clucker enjoyed Folk music and song in mid-Cheshire Re: Badger cullI think this is a thorny issue for animal lovers.
On the face of it, emotively, it should be a "no", but when you see on Countryfile that there are farmers who have had their life's work building up pedigree herds, some of them rare breeds, who have lost the lot to TB most likely spread by badgers, it is not so clearcut. There is also a wildlife centre down here appealing for food to help feed 18 orphan badgers - they have more than they can cope with. It is only because badgers became protected that they have got out of control. Surely we need some compromise arrangement, so that they are free to breed in areas where there is no livestock they can damage, but can be controlled where necessary. Re: Badger cullNo denying TB is a dreadful disease in cattle. But, first of all, why not establish beyond doubt that TB carried by badgers can transmit to cattle before orderingo a cull? Secondly since it is possible to vaccinate against the disease in badgers why not start a programme of innoculation?
The answer of course is cost - MUCH cheaper to just go out & shoot Britain's indiginous animals en masse. And if it doesn't work, so what? It was only the price of some shotgun cartridges wasted.
Re: Badger cullI haved signed the petition.
Andrea- Sunny Clucker fan awaiting her arrival in Kettering,Northamptonshire.
Re: Badger cullWhat I don't get is that we are told that Tb is passed onto cattle by the badgers. Yet Scotland is tb free according to countryfile and we have both badgers and cattle. So imo the excuse for the cull must be a lot of rubbish. Just can't get my head round it!
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Re: Badger cullThe problem I have that I don't know who I can believe or trust.
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Re: Badger cullAccording to an article in the September 2011 issue of BBc wild-life magazine a scientist who was heavily involved in the ins original study into the cull some 15 years ago (it ran from’98 until 07) has stated that culling goes against the scientific evidence. The scientist (No names but he was a professor and is now a Lord) is of the opinion that policy should be based on scientific fact rather than popular belief and that although culling reduced cases of bTB in cattle in the cull area, it actually increased cases in the surrounding area because the surviving badgers were wandering further; apparently this is called the perturbation effect.
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