More cash for TB vaccine offers hope for badgers...........cute photo!

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Valerie Elliott, Countryside Editor

 

 

Extra funds to speed up the development of a vaccine to control bovine TB in badgers and cattle will be announced by the Government next week.

The move from Hilary Benn, the Rural Affairs Secretary, is intended to placate the farming community, which is incensed by leaks suggesting that a cull of badgers in England has been ruled out.

However, this offer is deemed too little and the National Farmers’ Union is preparing a High Court challenge to Mr Benn’s decision on behalf of hundreds of farmers who had hoped to take part in a four-year trial cull of badgers in the southwest.

The Times has learnt that protests are to be staged at Westminster next week. Ministers could be harried by small groups of farmers when they attend engagements around the country – a ploy previously deployed by hunt supporters attempting to thwart a ban on their sport. Many cattle farmers may also refuse to cooperate with government vets over the routine testing of their animals for bovine TB.

 

 

 

 

 

Times Archive, 1877: Why we should be nice to badgers

I have kept badgers in perfect health for a long time on Spratt's meat biscuits, and they devoured them voraciously

 

Beneficial effect of badgers

 

Badgers and men

 

 

 

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Better than killing the badgers.

 

Jo

 

, Peter VV <swpgh01 wrote:

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> Valerie Elliott, Countryside Editor

> Extra funds to speed up the development of a vaccine to control

bovine TB in badgers and cattle will be announced by the Government

next week.

> The move from Hilary Benn, the Rural Affairs Secretary, is intended

to placate the farming community, which is incensed by leaks

suggesting that a cull of badgers in England has been ruled out.

> However, this offer is deemed too little and the National

Farmers’ Union is preparing a High Court challenge to Mr Benn’s

decision on behalf of hundreds of farmers who had hoped to take part

in a four-year trial cull of badgers in the southwest.

> The Times has learnt that protests are to be staged at Westminster

next week. Ministers could be harried by small groups of farmers when

they attend engagements around the country †" a ploy previously

deployed by hunt supporters attempting to thwart a ban on their

sport. Many cattle farmers may also refuse to cooperate with

government vets over the routine testing of their animals for bovine

TB.

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> Times Archive, 1877: Why we should be nice to badgers

> I have kept badgers in perfect health for a long time on Spratt's

meat biscuits, and they devoured them voraciously

> * Beneficial effect of badgers

> * Badgers and men

>