Basically, this... Prof John McInerney, Emeritus Professor of Agricultural Policy, University of Exeter: “It is not the case that the pilot culls were intended to limit the spread of bovine TB. The objective stated quite clearly at the outset was simply to ascertain the effectiveness and humaneness of shooting badgers as a method of culling. There was no intention to determine whether it might limit the spread of the disease because nothing was done to measure the levels of bovine TB either before, during or after the culls took place, and no disease measurement comparisons between the cull area and an area where culling was not happening were made. “Bovine TB is unarguably a serious problem in cattle farming, but the continual focus on the badger aspect is getting in the way of proper rigorous thinking about disease control. bTB is a disease of cattle and the badger is just an accessory, so badger culling (or vaccination) is just an accessory to the main problem. The control strategy has to be built directly around measures to limit the spread within the cattle population, and until this is done we will never get on top of the problem.” theguardian/environment/2014/feb/28/should-badger-culling-continue-in-england
Posted on: Sun, 21 Dec 2014 15:16:11 +0000
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