Proposed badger cull - TB, cows...

[bunn]

Interesting blog here : http://www.rspb.org.uk/community/ourwork/b/martinharper/archive/2011/12/14/a-sad-day-for-badgers-and-for-farmers.aspx

There seems to be quite a consensus (in blogs that I read anyway) that vaccines (whether for badgers, or for cows) are the most effective & humane way to go with the TB problem, but I wonder if vaccine development is more difficult than it appears, given that it seems to have taken so long to develop one and we still don't seem to have a working vaccine.

Since something PWWBBIHHALJ said, I always wonder when I see badgers dead on the roadside, if they were really killed by traffic accidents, or if dropping the body by a busy road is a convenient way to dispose of the evidence...

Comments

[bunn.livejournal.com]

Please don't think of it as hijacking, I have been reading along, as this is very much Relevant To My Interests! (mind you, I shall go on earwigging if you take it elsewhere anyway :-p)

[inzilbeth-liz.livejournal.com]

Lol! So long as you don't mind! I ought to post more of this sort of thing really but animal issues tend to polarise people so I usually play fairly safe!