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Woman 'catches TB from badgers'

A medical report has claimed a veterinary nurse who was infected with bovine TB was most likely to have caught the disease from badgers. http://www.fwi.co.uk/Articles/2008/09/26/112375/woman-catches-bovine-tb-from-garden-badgers-report.html Can DEFRA really get away with ignoring the threat of badgers...

Posted to Talking Point (Forum) by caroline stocks on Fri, Sep 26 2008
TB Badger Cull. MP's Should read this Blog more often.

I picked up my copy of Farmers Weekly this morning to read that MP Jim Paice had told the Games Fair 2008 that: “I want everyone at the Game Fair with TB-infected badgers on their land to take photos of them,” he told delegates at a conference discussing agricultural policy. “There is nothing more repulsive...

Posted to View from the other side of the fence (Weblog) by viewfromtheothersideofthefence on Sat, Aug 2 2008
Re: Proportional Representation

[quote user="Stewart"]With the exception of the hunting ban just what has Labour done wrong regarding the countryside and agriculture?[/quote] Foot and mouth labs, the RPA, TB, EU policy, Rural Development money and modulation, red diesel tax, renewable energy policy, flood defences, car tax...

Posted to Talking Point (Forum) by He his-self on Wed, Jul 16 2008
Re: Uk exports at serious risk

Jane, I wrote a Blog the other week about the needless slaughter of Cattle because of TB. TB. Total Badgers or Total Bullocks http://www.fwi.co.uk/community/blogs/viewfromtheotherside/archive/2008/06/15/tb-total-badgers-or-total-bullocks.aspx In it I asked "Do the badgers Suffer from TB or just...

Posted to Talking Point (Forum) by viewfromtheothersideofthefence on Tue, Jul 15 2008
Leics farmer James Webb and DEFRA secretary Hillary Benn

Leics farmer James Webb grabbed the opportunity to talk to DEFRA secretary Hilary Benn when he entered the cattle sheds on a tour of the show. Speaking to FW afterwards, Mr Webb said that he had told the minister that action needed to be taken to give the public confidence in the health of livestock...

Posted to Farmer reaction to government's refusal to cull badgers (Gallery) by Isabel Davies on Fri, Jul 4 2008
Re: Badger Cull

Deep breaths, but here is the Badger Trust reaction: The Badger Trust has welcomed a speculative story from the BBC[1] that the Government plans to rule out a cull of badgers to control bovine TB, on Monday 8 July. Trevor Lawson, for the Badger Trust, commented: "A decision against a badger cull...

Posted to Talking Point (Forum) by Isabel Davies on Fri, Jul 4 2008
Re: Badger Cull

[quote user="stockslave"]Is anyone surprised?[/quote] I've just been down to the stock sheds here at the Royal. There's no surprise but everyone is just so disappointed. They're also worried about what this is going to mean for the future of their business. It will be interesting...

Posted to Talking Point (Forum) by caroline stocks on Fri, Jul 4 2008
Re: Badger Cull - BBC says it won't happen

Forgot to say - Hilary Benn is due to appear here at the Royal Show later today, so I am sure this will be the main topic of conversation. I guess he hinted as much that things might go this way when he told NFU conference in february that his fourth critieria for making a descision was "public...

Posted to Talking Point (Forum) by Isabel Davies on Fri, Jul 4 2008
Re: National Trust will not cooperate with badger culling

The RSPCA had a letter about this issue in Sunday's observer: Badger culling is a colossal mistake The RSPCA did not oppose a cull of badgers suspected of causing bovine tuberculosis in cattle ('Super furry animal or cattle-killing, TB-ridden vermin?' Observer Magazine, last week). Our position...

Posted to Talking Point (Forum) by Isabel Davies on Mon, May 12 2008
Re: National Trust will not cooperate with badger culling

Matthew Naylor makesa a good point about the choice of picture used by the Guardian in his blog . I've reproduced it here: Stop. Look at the time of the entry. That's right 6.00am. My resolution since the Leadership course is to listen to Farming Today while I have my breakfast. Not sure if this...

Posted to Talking Point (Forum) by Isabel Davies on Mon, Apr 28 2008

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