Bovine TB Blog

November 2008 - Posts

• More on Bambi

  Early in 2004, we asked the Minister of State for Agriculture what assessment she had made of the influence of wild deer in the spread of TB to cattle. The answer given on the minister's behalf by baby-Ben Bradshaw was as follows: In Great Britain... Posted Nov 29 2008, 06:48 PM by Bovine TB

• "Tip of the Iceberg"

  Commenting on the performance which the minister of state for (some) Animal Health, Hilary Benn gave last week when he appeared before the EFRA committee, Martin Bell who lives in North Cornwall, makes a good point regarding the numbers of domestic pets... Posted Nov 15 2008, 06:52 PM by Bovine TB

• The night after bonfire night.

  The day before yesterday at 4.30p.m, the vegetarian bloke called 'Hilary', allegedly in charge of Animal Health, appeared before the EFRA (Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) committee to answer their criticism of his stance on badger culling... Posted Nov 07 2008, 09:05 PM by Bovine TB

• T-BAG - the successor?

  The NFU has announced an industry successor to the late un-lamented T-Bag, (TB Advisory Group') whose main claim to fame was the delivery of Defra's zoning lines. As we said in that post, Defra's creation of such 'groups' to rubber... Posted Nov 04 2008, 08:47 AM by Bovine TB