Badger Cull - Future of the British Countryside (1 Viewer)

[ikw101]

Amazed nobody has started a thread on this yet so here we go.

Culls of badgers should be carried out to control the TB epidemic in cattle, the government's chief science adviser has recommended.

Sir David King's advice is diametrically opposed to a near 10-year government study of badger-culling, which said it could "make no meaningful contribution" to controlling the spread of TB in cattle.

But Sir David said in a report yesterday to ministers at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs that there was a need for "strong action" to stop rising TB infection amongst cattle, and culling badgers was the "best option available at the moment to reduce the reservoir of infection in wildlife".

More details at http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2007/oct/23/sciencenews.homeaffairs

 

[turkish van]

There's a similarly themed thread in the 'wildlife conservation issues' forum

 

[ikw101]

A bit sad responding to my own post however the King report raises the issue of Gordon Brown's long term vision for the British countryside.

Not content with being the dirty man of Europe if the health experts are to be believed we're also the most overweight (if we include the Scots)!

Somewhat bizarrely we now have an urgent need to produce yet more dairy produce, cheap steaks and dodgy burgers at the expense of our native wildlife.

Perhaps unsurprisingly considering mad cow disease, foot and mouth, blue tongue and whatever next year will bring our European neighbours aren't exactly falling over themselves to buy British.

Is there really a need to sacrifice our native wildlife for factory farming?