Hey everyone, now I would like to start off by saying, yes, this will be a short post, and I'm sorry, but I don't really have time but I would still love to know all your opinions. Anyway, here goes I think the badger cull was and is wrong -_- simple as that, and I want to hear your views on the subject. basic back ground As a basic background for those of you not in the UK while this was going on... Cows in the UK are currently suffering from bovine tuberculosis, this is a lethal disease and is also very volatile and spreads easily between heards.?? Now, people at the top had a study run to see what all the fuss is about around farmers, and they come to the conclusion that badgers are to blame So the government tries to get around this uv instating a cull on wild badgers in the west of England There was many protests, however, eventually, it happened. why did it not happen to the best of the idea?? The main reason, as was to be expected by everyone of the vet clinics in the world, is the major increase of major trauma wounds caused by bullets that had not been fired properly and not killed instantly This means that the government lost millions of pounds that they were expecting to make because of damages good work Finally, all of this blood shed and failure can have been avoided if we had followed in the footsteps of other countries and developed a injection which cures TB in badgers and stops the transfiguration into cattle killing virus Please no trolls on this thread, I will request you leave and report you to mods Any opinions on the other hand a gratefully accepted to try and agree with me/change my mind
I studied environment science so have a brief idea about this kind of subject. Badgers tend to be nocturnal, they live in dens and are known to be fairly vicious. They aren't the easiest animals to catch and inoculate. Having said that, I would try as a cull doesn't get rid of the problem, it just minimises it. Unfortunately there is more money to be made from livestock than from badgers so it's obvious where the governments priorities are.
Why are you acting like that?? you obviously fucking know this is not a short post compared to others.
The fact is though, the cull didn't even work for the idea of minimising, because there were so many injured, these injuries can have helped the disease spread
I can understand that Kate, either way it doesn't particularly solve anything. It either leaves injuries, like you said, which can spread disease, you reduce numbers which only minimises the threat or you vaccinate which would cost millions and be hard to do. Wildlife in Britain isn't protected that much which is a same.
They try to protect it, that is the problem, they want to protect it while makin loads of money, and it just doesn't work like that
They can do with the right promotion. We don't protect our wildlife because it's not as 'glamorous' as others, we don't have big cats or anything so it's hard to do. They need to make a chain of nature parks like Centre Parcs that's affordable to everyone, that would be a great start to make money and spread awareness.
But we do protect them, there are hundreds of protection for animals, however, none of them are supported, they all just make there own money
That's what I'm getting at, they are protected to a degree but not to the extent other nations protect their animals. It's all down to how people view them. If you could make English wildlife seem more exciting (cheaper centre parcs for example) then you'd we'd be profiting from our wildlife so we'd have reason for more protection, vaccinations etc. Who has actually seen a badger? Where do you go to see them? It's hard to promote the protection of something that's not got a majestic image or is virtually invisible to most people.
Who has seen a badger? Me, and hundreds o other vets when they come into clinics because they have shot wounds, and farmers are assuming that they have TB and just send shot into their backs