Brian May opposes badger cull expansion – but what if it isn’t about bovine TB at all?
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Brian May has hit out at the Government’s war on badgers. What if it’s covert preparation for fracking? [Image: Getty].
What if it is in fact a preliminary land-clearing strategy to pave the way for the installation of fracking rigs?
I have no evidence to support this; it’s just a possibility thrown out by a friend of mine, late last night.
But still, what do you think?
Is anybody in possession of evidence – or able to point to it – that supports (or refutes) that possibility?
Queen legend Brian May has hit out at the Government’s war on badgers today amid reports that a cull is to be expanded across the country.
Animal welfare campaigners fear the animals are going to be targeted in five new areas as ministers ramp up the fight to tackle Bovine Tuberculosis.
Defra is refusing to be drawn on widespread reports that the cull is to be expanded across the West Country next month, with marksmen moving into North and South Devon, North Cornwall, West Dorset and South Herefordshire.
Ministers have set a 25-year goal to make England TB free.
The Queen guitarist last month called on Prime Minister Theresa May and Environment Secretary Andrea Leadsom to re-think the culling strategy which has already seen thousands of badgers culled across West Gloucestershire, West Somerset and Dorset over the past four years.
Source: Brian May takes aim at Government and calls badger cull a disgrace | Nature | News | Daily Express
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This development was reported on “Farming Today” on BBC Radio 4.
A brief reference was made to the possibility of cows being inoculated against TB but this was brushed aside by the interviewee.
Why are cows not being inoculated against TB if an injection is available?
This is surely more accurate and cheaper than hunting down and killing badgers?
I am pretty sure they inoculate cows against TB on mainland Europe.
They ran out of vaccine in Wales at one point.
That indicates that they can inoculate cows but choose not to.
Why?
The under funding of alternatives to the expensive, messy, cruel and ineffective shooting is legendary.
oh dear if fracking does go ahead then polluting the water ways will kill the badgers but since after the war the gov nows whot it had to do but flitched away from it sadly but dont worry there be another report on the badgers
Not sure about the whole fracking theory Mike. I know they’ve rolled it out to North Cornwall and Cornwall is one of the few places entirely outside of the fracking zones
The other theory is opening the land for development. Is that more likely?
Slightly off subject but could it be the cows infecting the badgers?
Curiously, there never seems to be a shortage of the vast amounts of hormones and antibiotics pumped into farm animals. The Badger cull is barbaric and based upon flimsy evidence.