culling badgers is a scientifically unsound & morally reprehensible crime

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Cattle movement substantially and consistently outweighs all other factors in outbreaks of bTB.
In Wales it is costing 700gbp to kill each badger, yet its plain to see this will not stem the bTB , DEFRA use statistics to pay lip service to the farmers, claiming that because statistically the 4% of badgers that they claim are carriers of bTB is higher than other animals ie ferrets, mink, deer, rats etc
culling near outbreak farms saw the incidence of bTB in surrounding farms increase by 25%; and whilst proactive cull areas saw a 19% reduction in TB incidence in cattle within the culled area, bTB was found to have increased by 29% in areas surrounding the culling zones.
a large scale proactive cull would be in breach of international law under the Bern Convention as well as illegal under the 1992 Badgers Act.
There are considerable ethical difficulties in seeking the extermination of a species nationwide per se, as well as the horrific slow and agonizing deaths through snaring .
There is also a related avian form of the bacterium, M.avium, which is pathogenic for cattle and other mammals.
btw 1 in 3 humans is estimated to carry TB bacteria.

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[craftsmank]

culling badgers is a response to farmers angst.

i know of a very large badger sett under a cow pasture - the farmer has never had a single case of tb - hees been there over 30 years. If you have a well established sett on your land they will keep infected badgers out -

Could it be possible that for instance tb spores are carried from farm to farm on the hooves of horses in the hunt, on the treads of vets cars,the tyres of hunt followers ???

[spineyExtra]

Cattle movement substantially and consistently outweighs all other factors in outbreaks of bTB.

1 in 3 humans is estimated to carry TB bacteria.