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Re: Woman 'catches TB from badgers'

Hi All, First of all, my sympathies to the woman with TB and I hope she makes a speedy recovery. As for the solution, well it is rather a chicken & egg thing, isn't it. To apply the reasoning favoured by most farmers that to erradicate TB from the herd, we should kill all badgers, falls just...

Posted to Talking Point (Forum) by blott on Sat, Sep 27 2008
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
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: Badger Cull - BBC says it won't happen

Here is a copy of the story: The government has decided against a cull of badgers in England to control TB in cattle, the BBC understands. The policy announcement, which was due to be made next Monday, goes against the recommendations of the former Chief Scientific Adviser, Sir David King. Last year...

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

Officials at the National Trust say they do not plan to cooperate with the forthcoming badger cull in Wales and others that may follow in England, potentially creating a significant hurdle for the government. In a move likely to infuriate some farmers, leaders of the 3.5 million-member organisation,...

Posted to Talking Point (Forum) by Isabel Davies on Mon, Apr 28 2008
Re: Wales leading the way on TB front

[quote user="Isabel Davies"] This will include from 2009 the publication of infected farms and the compensation paid. [/quote] This may be just one sentence, but it look's to me like the Welsh Assembly is going to use the threat of publicising which farms have TB and how much each farmer...

Posted to Talking Point (Forum) by top tup on Wed, Apr 9 2008
Re: TB seems to have been forgotton !!!

Listening to the BBC Radio five live interview with King at six tonight, I was struck how he commented that he thought 70-80% (approx 200,000? badgers would need to be culled in infected areas. That's going to be an interesting "sell" to the general public for Benn - if he dares to go that...

Posted to Talking Point (Forum) by Mike Abram - Arable Deputy Editor on Mon, Oct 22 2007
TB seems to have been forgotten (includes David King badger cull report)

whilst down in the westcountry we can only watch and feel sorry for you chaps in the counties that are locked up in the blue tounge zone, spare a thought for the TB situation which we have watched get worse by the minuite over the past 15 years. During a live interview on radio 4 during the 2001 fmd...

Posted to Talking Point (Forum) by warrener on Fri, Oct 19 2007

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