12 Lame Claims for culling badgers Archives

The current policy to cull badgers is cheating badgers, cattle, the public purse and farmers.

16 Jun

There is no effective oral badger vaccine currently available as it breaks down in the stomach.

16 July 2021
By Anne
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Well, that’s not true. In New Zealand, they have used oral vaccines and they work as they do here. Trinity University are working on th...

16 Jun

12 Lame Claims for culling badgers

Culling is the most economically viable option. We do not need to record numbers etc as the evidence will be clear when bTB levels drop

16 July 2021
By Anne
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There was no intention to collect any data or science from these trials. If the culling is rolled out across the ten initial cull zones...

16 Jun

12 Lame Claims for culling badgers

Free shooting is the best way forward.

16 July 2021
By Anne
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Shooting badgers is a complex procedure, and the fact that they’re low-slung creatures means that bullets with a trajectory of one mile...

16 Jun

12 Lame Claims for culling badgers

We have stopped perturbation.

16 July 2021
By Anne
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If you do agree with this terms then that is even more reason not to cull. Given that the disease cannot be contained, a cull will inev...

16 Jun

12 Lame Claims for culling badgers

The EU condemns the UK’s control of policy, and confirms the money given is not for badgers.

16 July 2021
By Anne
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Stricter measures to prevent cows from spreading bTB to other cows are the only way to combat the disease effectively. As a result of s...

16 Jun

12 Lame Claims for culling badgers

All the science tells us to cull

16 July 2021
By Anne
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Lord Krebs who oversaw the RBCT has argued, “The scientific case is as clear as it can be: this cull is not the answer to TB in cattle....

15 Jun

12 Lame Claims for culling badgers

Badgers have spread bTB across the country

16 July 2021
By Anne
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Given that badgers don’t generally travel by bus or lorry, and rarely cover long distances on foot, the widespread and frequent movemen...

15 Jun

12 Lame Claims for culling badgers

Bovine TB is increasing at an alarming rate.

16 July 2021
By Anne
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In the 1960s, farming in England was experiencing a serious outbreak of Bovine TB but through careful cattle management, strict biosecu...

15 Jun

12 Lame Claims for culling badgers

Thousands of cattle are being needlessly slaughtered each year, at a cost of £1 billion to taxpayers, because they are infected with bTB.

16 July 2021
By Anne
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Every year the UK’s farming industry sends 350,000 cattle for premature slaughter, most of which are suffering from illnesses that are ...

15 Jun

12 Lame Claims for culling badgers

No country in the world has solved bTB without first addressing it in the wildlife population.

16 July 2021
By Anne
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Of course, that isn’t true – and you don’t need to travel very far to see some strong evidence against it. In 1938, we slaughtered 47,4...