Badger cull 'not cost-effective' in TB battle

Experts have concluded a widespread cull of badgers would not be a cost-effective way of fighting the spread of bovine TB. . Follow us on twitter at http://twitter.com/itn_news.

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• badger cull
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• bovine tb
• cattle
• farmers
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• defra
• wildlife

[SONGSTICKS]

@willzy2k6

You know it's people like you that made me give up on the human race. There's no fucking hope !!

MAY THE FLEAS OF A THOUSAND CAMELS INFEST YOUR ARSEHOLE.

[FarmerDew97]

We came down with TB last year. we had to kill 70 cattle.if killing badgers is animal cruelty then shurely having to kill cattle with tb is aswell.

[philstew1234]

Why the hell are badgers not classed as vermin?! Protecting them and helping to increase their numbers has NO benefit, ecologically, or economically. Id like to see someone give me 5 GOOD reasons not to class badgers as vermin!

[badgerprotector]

Put cattle to one side in your thinking. 1000's of Badgers live outside the currently endemic TB area - not all of the country has endemic TB in its wildlife population - YET, but TB is creeping across to the east at a steady rate regardless of cattle. Badgers suffer a painful and drawn out death when they have TB - it is not something that they cary harmlessly like a parasite. Healthy badgers outside the southwest need protecting from this disease. Time is short and a cull may be the only way.

[SONGSTICKS]

@willzy2k6

Since you seem to think you are the authority on this subject.

Tell me what conclusive evidence there is that Badgers are the cause of tb in cattle.

As one chap has said below, in Ireland the cull made no difference.

It's one thing trashing cucumbers, but killing beautiful animals without absolute proof that they are the cause or that culling them would cure the problem is rediculous. Maybe I was a bit hasty blaming the scientists, I'll give you that.

[willzy2k6]

@SONGSTICKS i think youl find its often not scientists that are not trust worthy it is the media and the way they interperate reports from the scientific comunity that are incorrect , every scientific report is scrutinised by other members of the scientic community so false claims are uncovered rapidly , and in the e coli incident im sure that they were doing the best job they could concidering no one had any idea what the source was , dont comment upon things you have little knowledge of.

[SONGSTICKS]

Hasty action without conclusive evidence. Whatever happened to innocent until proven guilty. scientists are far from trustworthy. Take the Ecoli outbreak. 1st off they say.. IT'S THE CUCUMBERS ! So Germany destroy thousands of Cucumbers..shortly after some lab somewhere puts up a hand and says..oops, sorry not the cucumbers ! We think it might be..um er. beansprouts..maybe, !! Badgers are one of Britains finest treasures, we need to sign every petition we can to stop these idiots in government

[scania27]

WE had a badger cull in ireland and sorry to say but it hasnt worked at all bovine tb is still causing trouble seems to have got worse actually.they are now saying its to do with the way we farm and transport our animals.we have had a cull so learn from us it DOESNT WORK

[scania27]

WE had a badger cull in ireland and sorry to say but it hasnt worked at all bovine tb is still causing trouble seems to have got worse actually.they are now saying it

[Catsvomit]

@FarmerDew97 - it is your intention to eventually kill cattle anyway. Your only gripe probably is loss of profit.