Badger cull: Is Northern Ireland's way better?
BY LINDA STEWART – 29 AUGUST 2013
Full article here:
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/ne...-29531909.html

There are many experts who say a 'cull' can make the problem worse. And many other opinions given to suggest it is not badgers infecting cattle it is the other way around.

I know when I lived down in Cornwall there was much argument about 'test areas' because farmers are a 'law unto themselves' and will do what they want to do and this skews the results.

I grew up in a farmer community and have seen how tb can effect farmers. However I am strongly opposed to the cull for the reasons already said in the thread. It just smacks of a way for the tories to placate the NFU and try to win a few farming votes.

The science doesnt back up a cull and the numbers dont either. If we were to have a uk wide cull something like 75% of the uk badger population would be killed. 85% at least do not carry the disease. So straight away thats a lot of perfectly healthy animals that are being killed. So even if we do all that they predict that it would only reduce bTB by 16%!!

Clearly the figures show that there is a lot more to this then badgers. But then hey they still dont even know how the pathogen is passed on but lets just carry out a cull away

The very worst thing that can happen is happening - ie, the cull is going ahead. This will just spread the TB further afield, as it is impossible to kill every single badger, there will always be at least one that will escape the guns ... to flee into pastures new in terror, only to spread the disease even more.

This is what the science proves - but why let science spoil a good opportunity to have a legal excuse to use badgers as a target practice. If they ever try a badger cull around my area, i'll be using some living creatures as target practice but they won't be badgers