04-21-2015, 05:46 AM
Badgers are scapegoats for bad husbandry.
The pro-cull mob regularly quote the Irish cull as 'proof' a cull is effective and justified. What they don't tell you is that the Irish badger cull involved the SIMULTANEOUS introduction of cattle movement restrictions, a new improved and more accurate testing procedure, together with a mass slaughter of badgers. There was no scientific control.
In the Republic of Ireland in 1954 , 17% of the Republic of Ireland (ROI) national herd had bTB. A programme of testing and cattle movement restrictions reduced incidence of bTB in the ROI national herd to 3% by the mid-60s. A far bigger reduction than the 2000- programme. And all this without a single badger being killed.
The pro-cull mob regularly quote the Irish cull as 'proof' a cull is effective and justified. What they don't tell you is that the Irish badger cull involved the SIMULTANEOUS introduction of cattle movement restrictions, a new improved and more accurate testing procedure, together with a mass slaughter of badgers. There was no scientific control.
In the Republic of Ireland in 1954 , 17% of the Republic of Ireland (ROI) national herd had bTB. A programme of testing and cattle movement restrictions reduced incidence of bTB in the ROI national herd to 3% by the mid-60s. A far bigger reduction than the 2000- programme. And all this without a single badger being killed.
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