So what about these badgers then?
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I see there is uproar regarding a proposed badger cull to try to prevent the spread of bovine TB in dairy cattle. Now we dont get many badgers locally and we dont appear to have a problem but i can understand the nightmare that D farmers are facing in affected areas.
So should it be the badgers
that go or the cows?
So should it be the badgers
that go or the cows? there's no definitive proof that badgers spread TB to cattle, and in the past when there have been experiments with local badger culls, the levels of TB in cattle remained un changed, and in some cases went up.
admittedly most of the paperwork and figures i've seen are from the pro badger side of thing, my parents are proffesional badger type people.
admittedly most of the paperwork and figures i've seen are from the pro badger side of thing, my parents are proffesional badger type people.
many a true word said in jest!
my dad does occasionally dress up in a badger suit to fundraise for the local badger group, and when news of the proposed cull was announced a few years ago, he was on the news dressed up in it along with loads of other badger types from all over the country, protesting outside parliament.
my dad does occasionally dress up in a badger suit to fundraise for the local badger group, and when news of the proposed cull was announced a few years ago, he was on the news dressed up in it along with loads of other badger types from all over the country, protesting outside parliament.
eccles said:
many a true word said in jest!
my dad does occasionally dress up in a badger suit to fundraise for the local badger group, and when news of the proposed cull was announced a few years ago, he was on the news dressed up in it along with loads of other badger types from all over the country, protesting outside parliament.
Your Dad's as mad as a badger!
srebbe64 said:
many a true word said in jest!
my dad does occasionally dress up in a badger suit to fundraise for the local badger group, and when news of the proposed cull was announced a few years ago, he was on the news dressed up in it along with loads of other badger types from all over the country, protesting outside parliament.
Your Dad's as mad as a badger!
...you'd have to drive a Tamora to have that handle..
R TOY said:
I see there is uproar regarding a proposed badger cull to try to prevent the spread of bovine TB in dairy cattle. Now we dont get many badgers locally and we dont appear to have a problem but i can understand the nightmare that D farmers are facing in affected areas.
So should it be the badgers
Neither.
ing stupid idea from start to finish. In either event.
Culling badgers - it appears that a study has shown that culling the poor buggers merely makes them run away to places where they're not being culled....during which time they spread TB further and to more cattle. A bit pointless.
As to the cows going? Utterly unrealistic. So...should we stop farming cows here in the UK...so we need to fly our beef in from Argentina (every Steak spreading noxious fumes into the upper atmosphere so it can damage the ozone layer, every Steak costing precious irreplaceable oil resources that I'd prefer to go into my car) and get our milk from Europe - so it has to be driven miles in HGVs causing horrendous congestion and spewing out evil diesel particulates.
"Cows go" -
COWS GO MOO!
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