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

[endlessrarities.livejournal.com]

What depresses me is that vegetarianisn - and the desire to eat organic, humanely farmed meat - seems to be a mere fad, and one of the first things to be sacrificed when money gets tight. When these same people are happy to keep buying their gadgets, new cars, etc.

[bunn.livejournal.com]

You've come across people who have stopped being veggie as an *economy measure* ? That's SO WEIRD. Surely vegetarianism is much cheaper? I've always tended to go veggie (during times I've done that) for reasons of economy as much as anything else!

[endlessrarities.livejournal.com]

It was probably my lousy writing... The vegetarianism isn't so dependant on economics, I suppose. But it does seem come in cycles.

Economics seems to be a major factor in determing whether people can 'afford' (or are willing to splash out on, more like...) to support organic farming.