tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16505569.post6736601734869764593..comments2024-01-05T05:02:20.353+00:00Comments on CRYPTOZOOLOGY ONLINE: Still on the Track: MORE ON THE BADGER CULLUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16505569.post-6275885725287839822011-07-29T14:05:21.634+01:002011-07-29T14:05:21.634+01:00To be brief, the facts of the matter as these:
1)...To be brief, the facts of the matter as these:<br /><br />1) Bovine TB used to be a huge problem in Britain. Stringent and repeated cattle testing, culling of infected herds and culling badgers in known-infected regions got rid of bTB last time, therefore there is already a known-working and cheap solution to the problem.<br /><br />2) If you remove culling the wildlife reservoir from the control regime, then it stops working. We know this because this is exactly what has been done, and bovine TB is on the increase. A useful experiment is therefore to re-implement the previously known-effective control strategy, and see if it still works.<br /><br />3) Money talks, and since DEFRA is currently paying out £80 million per annum (and rising year on year) in compensation alone, the question is therefore being asked if this sum is worth it. <br /><br />4) By failing to control bovine TB, we are condemning thousands of badgers to a slow, painful and miserable death as TB progressively destroys their lungs, kidneys and eventually causes systemic failure. A failure to stop the disease is therefore not "being kind to badgers", but is rather cruelly allowing thousands of animals to die of a painful and preventable disease.<br /><br />It is this latter aspect which especially annoys me. So-called Animal Rights activists are by their actions subjecting badgers to far more inhumane suffering and a much more miserable death than would otherwise be the case were they to permit farmers and DEFRA to get rid of bovine TB from Britain permanently.<br /><br />Do you really want to permit thousands of badgers to die of TB?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com