TB Cull to be stopped

[steveR]

WTF is going on???

Just popped up on Sky news feed, but no proper info yet.

 

[steveR]

More...

Badger culling to tackle TB in livestock to be phased out

The government also has plans to vaccinate more badgers, which can transmit TB to livestock.

news.sky.com

 

[Steevo]

Just checked this out as surprised me.

Turns out you are correct! No mention of timescale though, other than replacing it with vaccine expected to be deployed in next 5 years.

Another nail in the coffin....!

 

[jondear]

Boris's partner been bending ears again !.How many things can this government do to kick UK agriculture in 2 months .Power crazy now!

 

[chaffcutter]

Another victory for the snowflakes, who are not affected by the TB mess at all and don't care about the loss of breeding potential in the cattle population.

Or the effect on the mental and physical health of dairy farmers having to deal with this.

 

[super4]

Just heard on the radio the badger cull is to be phased out. Badgers are to be vaccinated instead. Boris been listening to his girl friend?

 

[exmoor dave]

It looks like its dependent on a effective vaccine for cattle, which would also require a test to differentiate between infected abd vaccinated animals...... since I don't think either exists, ghe time scale must be a long one!

 

[som farmer]

today, gov want's to phase out the badger cull, to replace by vaccination. Not an immediate ban, but once tb is 'under control'. Shows the thinking behind the scenes, wonder who influences this ?

 

[michael N123]

All a waste of f**king money

its a over populated pest species that costs the country millions... just put the vermin on the general licence so there classed the same as foxes

 

[former farmer]

Yes, yet another nail in the coffin for livestock producers. Discarding a policy, unpopular outside the industry , which most producers thought was working. Realistically is an effective vaccine any closer than it was twenty years ago?

At the same time talk of opening the home market to all comers.

 

[Still Farming]

today, gov want's to phase out the badger cull, to replace by vaccination. Not an immediate ban, but once tb is 'under control'. Shows the thinking behind the scenes, wonder who influences this ?

What if?
Animal transmit kv19 too???

 

[primmiemoo]

Why is it that an effective vaccine has been 5 years away since I first heard about the possibility of an effective vaccine getting on for 20 years ago?

Will there be a vaccinate plus bolus/DNA sample as proof system? Biometrics in with passports?

 

[steveR]

Just checked this out as surprised me.

Turns out you are correct! No mention of timescale though, other than replacing it with vaccine expected to be deployed in next 5 years.

Another nail in the coffin....!

Hopefully Bozzer will moved on from his latest female conquest in 5 years time, and this will be forgotten.

As there is no usable vaccine still.... might be waiting a while??

But miserable news and more kowtowing to the extremest lobby groups, when the latest DEFRA results from late last year, all show TB in bovines has plummeted in former hotspot areas where the active cull has been carried out.

 

[unlacedgecko]

Badger culls to be phased out in favour of vaccinations, Government announces

Cattle trials are to be implemented and 'intensive' badger culling will end to tackle bovine TB

www.telegraph.co.uk

 

[gone up the hill]

Another victory for the snowflakes, who are not affected by the TB mess at all and don't care about the loss of breeding potential in the cattle population.

Or the effect on the mental and physical health of dairy farmers having to deal with this.

Don't forget that TB can effect beef farmers a lot worse than dairy farmers @chaffcutter

For example as soon as a beef herd goes down you are unable to buy store cattle for at least 3 months which means that further down the line you then have little or no cattle to sell for 3 months ( and sometimes you are stopped from buying for a lot longer than 3 months )

Imagine for example telling Tesco they couldn't restock their stores for 3 months, you can imagine what their response would be!


Ref a vaccine, You cannot vaccinate cattle unless the entire British cattle herd has been certified TB free and that is very unlikely to happen in the next 30 years let alone 5 years!

Also if we vaccinate cattle it will mean that as things stand exports of British beef/semen will be stopped dead in their tracks to any EU country let alone Country's further afield!

Will be very intresting to hear Minettes/ the NFU response to todays news...........

 

[gone up the hill]

A thread on this in the livestock section so may be a good idea to put the two threads into one @chaffcutter / @JP1

 

[gone up the hill]

In Wales the vaccination off badgers has turned out to be an utter shambles.

One poor badger was caught and vaccinated something like 17 times in one season.

And the average cost of each badger's vaccination worked out to be something like £3500 head!

 

[texelburger]

I seem to recall reading,a while ago,that Boris J's girlfriend Carrie Symonds was against the Badger cull.Is she influencing Government decisions ? Frightening if true.

 

[gone up the hill]

I seem to recall reading,a while ago,that Boris J's girlfriend Carrie Symonds was against the Badger cull.Is she influencing Government decisions ? Frightening if true.

Very likely as she was the reason that the badger cull in Derbyshire ( I think it was ) was stopped at the last minute a few months ago!

 

[JP1]

A thread on this in the livestock section so may be a good idea to put the two threads into one @chaffcutter / @JP1

Done