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Brian May: The Badgers, the Farmers and Me - BBC iPlayer.
TB skin testing is ineffective so a 'clean' bull may have TB. Better sanitation & hygiene on farms. Cow poo from infected cows can spread the disease. Watch what you do with the slurry. Badgers probably catch it from the cows.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0022710/brian-may-the-badgers-the-farmers-and-me

#BovineTB
#TB
#Cows
#Badgers
#BadgerCull

So it's illegal to test cows for TB without permission from the govt. Which means if the govt are determined to kill badgers there is no way to experiment with other ways of preventing TB. Any research is only with govt permission.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0022710/brian-may-the-badgers-the-farmers-and-me

#BovineTB
#Cows
#Badgers
#BadgerCull
#TestingForTBInCows
#AlternativesToTheCull

This is on BBC2 now.

#Badgers #BadgerCull #BovineTB #Farming #DairyFarming #UKPolitics

Shocking badger cull film on BBC will prompt anger like Post Office scandal drama, claims Queen star Brian May | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/badger-cull-brian-may-bbc2-documentary-b2601021.html

Badger cull may have increased bovine TB risk in neighbouring herds – study | Badgers | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/aug/21/badger-cull-may-have-increased-bovine-tb-risk-in-neighbouring-herds-study

#BadgerCull
#BovineTB
#RiskOfTB
#RiskOfTBIncreased
#Cattle
#Cows
#Bulls
#Badgers
#OxfordUni
#NGOs
#Labour
#RCBT

BBC News: Cornwall badger vaccination shows promise - report

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c80ee5xkrpno

#Badgers
#BadgerCull
#Vaccination
#VaccinateBadgers
#BovineTB
#ZoologicalSocietyOfLondon
#CornwallWildlifeTrust
#ImperialCollegeLondon
#Farmers
#DeptForEnviromentFoodAndRuralAffairs

BBC News: Badger charity mounts legal challenge against culling

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy847je742do

#BadgerCull
#LegalAction
#LegalChallenge
#BadgerTrust
#BovineTB
#UKGov
#Dorset
#Wiltshire
#Oxfordshire
#NaturalEngland
#Vaccination
#VaccinateBadgers
#DEFRA
#NFU
#Badgers

"Over four years, researchers vaccinated 265 badgers across 12 farms in Cornwall. They found the percentage of badgers testing positive for bTB fell from 16% to zero.

“It’s the best result you could get from a small study,” said the lead researcher, Prof Rosie Woodroffe, from the Zoological Society of London (ZSL)."

#Badgers #BovineTB #Vaccination
Vaccinating badgers more effective than culls in stopping bovine TB, study finds | Badgers | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/aug/06/badger-vaccination-cull-eradicate-bovine-tuberculosis-btb-farmers-cornwall-study-zsl-aoe

The age of extinction

Vaccinating #badgers more effective than culls in stopping #BovineTB, study finds

Percentage of badgers with bTB fell to zero in Cornish study, raising hopes of end to cull of 210,000 badgers since 2013
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/aug/06/badger-vaccination-cull-eradicate-bovine-tuberculosis-btb-farmers-cornwall-study-zsl-aoe
#ToryLegacy #ToryCruelty

As far as I know, the main reason for not vaccinating dairy cattle against TB is that a vaccine would mean the milk would fail TB detection tests. But with Brexit, surely - since virtually all milk is sold locally - this gives a chance for the island of Britain to limit all milk to local sale, then vaccinate all cows and all humans, and wipe out bovine TB in a generation while protecting humans (especially as the BCG vaccine may protect against dementia)
#Brexit #TB #BovineTB

Plan to step up badger cull prompts fresh row between ministers and wildlife defenders | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/badger-cull-btb-end-areas-b2512837.html

#Badgers
#BadgerCull
#BritishVeterinaryAssociation
#BovineTB
#DEFRA

Tory MP calls for ‘all wild animals’ to be culled | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/mp-richard-drax-beavers-badgers-culling-b2507029.html

#Tory
#MP
#Culls
#WildAnimals
#Beavers
#Drax
#Dorset
#BadgerTrust
#BadgerCull
#BovineTB
#Extinction

Thousands more #badgers face #cull as number of killing zones surges | #Environment | The Guardian

This is the farming lobby (Big Farma?) blaming wildlife for spreading #tuberculosis amongst #cattle and the government acquiescing in the slaughter.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/sep/07/badgers-thousands-more-face-cull-killing-zones-extermination-bovine-tb

#BovineTB #UK #Farming #Agriculture