Badger Cull 2013

[earth-thrower 493]

So who are you trying to educate !!!!!!

What are you on about ? Id really like to hear your views on the matter then.........

[earth-thrower 493]

 

So who are you trying to educate !!!!!!

What are you on about ? Id really like to hear your views on the matter then.........

 

Apologies, it seems youve shared some of your wisdom,earlier in the thread.

[Matt 160]

They are not testing the badgers shot in the upcoming trial because it's too expensive to do, and will give no more information than we already have.

 

During the RBCT up to % of the badgers in some areas tested positive for bTB, and it averaged at around 50% in the hotspots.

 

There is no doubt that culling will reduce TB, even the flawed RBCT managed a 16% reduction, and that was with a woefully poor cull. At the time, we were begging the ISG to let us lamp and snare and they were having none of it. Unless you reduce the population significantly, you don't get a decent drop in TB levels.

 

Overall, 14% of the traps were stolen during the RBCT and most of those had badgers in them when the animal rights loonies took them away. Those badgers were then released just outside the cull area thereby spreading TB. They call it 'perturbation' now, but actually, it was a deliberate tactic employed by the nutters at the time.

 

Looking at Facebook, I see that the Sabs have been out and about in Somerset and they are bragging about all the traps they've stolen and vandalised over the weekend. If you are on Facebook, go to Stop the Cull and report the page please. These people are Scum of the highest order.

[Frann 882]

Aye there are some right cretins on that Facebook page. Ive reported it but Facebook seem slow as fook in doing anything.

[graham4877 1,181]

Don't see what all the fuss is about, just shoot the f*****g things, TB or not, theirs far to many of them! one of the last time i was out before i took ill, i counted 20 plus in one small field! they always f**k up my nights , so the sooner its rolled out country wide the better!

Just wish they would let them be Dug.

[earth-thrower 493]

Just to add to the mix,and perhaps balance things out a bit,check out www.badgersandtb.com Ive had to read it again and again,just to get enough of it to sink in !! ha-ha.

[mushroom 12,959]

Just to add to the mix,and perhaps balance things out a bit,check out www.badgersandtb.com Ive had to read it again and again,just to get enough of it to sink in !! ha-ha.

Firstly the diagrams are crap (my 10 year old could come up with a more detailed line graph ffs) they jump from 1940 to 1960 missing 10 years out of 1950 and representing those years (that there is no data for ie1940) with a made up dotted line, why?

 

Secondly after compulsory testing was introduced the rates dropped significantly, maybe this had something to do with cattle AND badger control.

 

Thirdly look at how the rates start to rise after the introduction of the Wildlife act 1981 and then shoot up exponentially over 10-20 years on. This being plenty of time for an uncontrolled pest species with no natural predator to massively increase its numbers leading to overcrowding and by proxy disease transmission

Edited June 12, 2013 by mushroom

[earth-thrower 493]

 

Just to add to the mix,and perhaps balance things out a bit,check out www.badgersandtb.com Ive had to read it again and again,just to get enough of it to sink in !! ha-ha.

Firstly the diagrams are crap (my 10 year old could come up with a more detailed line graph ffs) they jump from 1940 to 1960 missing 10 years out of 1950 and representing those years (that there is no data for ie1940) with a made up dotted line, why?

 

Secondly after compulsory testing was introduced the rates dropped significantly, maybe this had something to do with cattle AND badger control.

 

Thirdly look at how the rates start to rise after the introduction of the Wildlife act 1981 and then shoot up exponentially over 10-20 years on. This being plenty of time for an uncontrolled pest species with no natural predator to massively increase its numbers leading to overcrowding and by proxy disease transmission

 

Well, its always interesting, to read other peoples views................