Badger Cull Postponed

[fburton]

If we can put a man on the moon, surely we can figure out how to eradicate TB?

You'd have thought so. The trouble is biological 'engineering' is often a lot harder than the mechanical sort - one can't put vaccines or antibiotics together the way one can build a space shuttle.

 

[dominobrown]

I am sorry but there is no way you can eradicate all badgers throughout Britain, and you would also cull millions of healthy badgers not carrying the disease.

Yes it would cost millions to develop a vaccine, but then it is done. A cull of badgers would go on for decades, probably be ineffective and cost millions as well.

 

[Orangehorse]

No one wants to cull all badgers throughout Britain. What is needed is a cull of all infected badgers. It was nearly completed once, so no reason why it couldn't be done again, if the government had more backbone. Of course, there is a MUCH higher badger population now.

There are plenty of areas of Britain where there is no TB in cattle or in badgers.

 

[Alec Swan]

I wouldn't even go there!!! I live in New Zealand which is one of the very few, if not the only country, that allows the use of 1080 and it causes a lot of problems........

Having done a bit of research, 1080 seems to be a rather needlessly cruel and barbaric way of killing anything. Gassing would be the most certain and humane method, with shooting as a relatively slow and generally ineffective method of accounting for relatively large numbers.

Should Government ever find the collective spine which will be needed, can you just imagine the uproar that there would be, if whole sett gassing or poison were used? Far easier to go for the least effective, and therefore the preferred method.

Placate the masses by agreeing to a system which would be virtually useless. You see if I'm not right.

Alec.