Nearly 25,000 cattle were slaughtered in England in 2010 because of bovine TB, which cost's the country £90 million each year.
The British public don't want to support their local farmers in the TB campaign, this is causing more and more farmers loosing their stock. If the UK was clear of TB then TB infected meat most certainly wouldn't be getting into the human food chain but because everyone want to save a badger then im afaraid it's just going to get worse and worse.
We can’t escape the fact that the evidence supports the case for a controlled reduction of the badger population in areas worst affected by bovine TB. With the problem of TB spreading and no usable vaccine on the horizon, It is only right the cull to be carried out by groups of farmers and landowners, as part of a science-led and carefully managed policy of badger control.
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