tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8278366793340877738.post4635872319578601473..comments2023-11-02T10:43:15.185+00:00Comments on DENVERSTROPE: Badger Cull Still PlannedUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8278366793340877738.post-71625387849050062552012-10-10T23:09:44.636+01:002012-10-10T23:09:44.636+01:00Today's bizarre twist (10-10-2012) from the &q...Today's bizarre twist (10-10-2012) from the "Daily Telegraph":-<br /><br />The pro-cullers say they want the RSPCA to prosecute badger protectors who use noisy horns to persuade badgers to stay in their setts rather than come out and be shot!<br /><br />"I feel the RSPCA is taking a very hypocritical stand on this,” said Jan Rowe, a farmer who is running Gloscon, the company carrying out the cull in Gloucestershire. <br /><br />“They don’t seem to care about badgers dying a painful death from TB or the cattle we have to slaughter."<br /><br />Rowe seems to assume the rest of us don't know that an exceedingly tiny percentage of badgers get TB and even fewer feel ill as a result of their TB. <br /><br />The best ways of safeguarding cattle from bTB deaths are tighter control of cattle movement now (which some farmers are already complaining about) and pushing ahead with the cattle vaccine. bTB's got very little to do with badgers, they're just being scapegoated.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com