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12-07-2011, 11:37 AM
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| | | bTB - the farmers' fault?
An interesting twist in the long badger bTB issue. Turns out some farmers have been switching ear tags to infected valuable cows are left alive and less valuable bTB free cows are slaughtered, netting the famers extra cash but leaving the infected cow to infect the other cattle (and badgers). TB scams prompt call to halt badger cull - Farming - Yorkshire Post
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12-07-2011, 11:53 AM
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| | | Re: bTB - the farmers' fault?
Very interesting the badger cull for Wales has been posponed, I wonder if this was why?
Hopefully the cull will not now ever happen 
Looks like the farmers have to take some of the blame for their own problems
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12-07-2011, 03:53 PM
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| | | Re: bTB - the farmers' fault?
Well..........A few dodgy characters have ripped off the system. Shades of News International. More to the point is that the scientific evidence shows that the maximum benefit from killing 100,000 badgers would be a reduction in BTB of less than 15%. Vaccination plus improved animal husbandry would reduce infection by ~90%. Political discussion is not allowed on WAB but we do have a government of farmers who don't want to spend money . . .
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12-07-2011, 06:39 PM
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| | | Re: bTB - the farmers' fault?
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Originally Posted by STYRBJORN  Well..........A few dodgy characters have ripped off the system. Shades of News International. More to the point is that the scientific evidence shows that the maximum benefit from killing 100,000 badgers would be a reduction in BTB of less than 15%. Vaccination plus improved animal husbandry would reduce infection by ~90%. Political discussion is not allowed on WAB but we do have a government of farmers who don't want to spend money . . .
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