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Originally Posted by deanp
What is up with the protection of TB-carrying badgers at such an expense to the farming community? The game cam footage of the population just in the dens on Diddly Squat was eye-opening and how can you not feel for the dairy farmers that lost half their herd to TB? Can't shoot, trap, or manage them in any way?
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We have been watching
All Creatures Great and Small on PBS. Books written by a veterinarian back in the 1930s and they focus on small English village vet clinic that services farmers that raise livestock. The author did a big push with the UK Government way back then to test cows (mainly) for TB and attempt to eradicate it.
So when we saw the badger episodes of Clarkson's show we were blown away that something like TB has been an issue in England for decades and they are impotent (self inflicted) to stop it. So the solution is to buy beef from Australia and pigs from EU countries? I could fix this in a second, kill the infected badgers. Rocket science it is not.