This is horrendous. We are a really brutal country for wildlife.
I still feel like a 20% infection rate is a lot considering how devastating it is for livestock. I mean if someone could enlighten me, my only reference is that episode from Clarkstons farm where a single infection nearly ends his local farmers season.
This is the dumbest shit. Call the department of agriculture after you shoot a deer with TB on a farm and they won’t even call out or do anything.
If your policy isnt following science and logic, its not worth the paper its written on. Great piece of journalisme bring that embaressment and mismanagement to light. Let’s see more conversation on why farming practices contribue to its spread and whether action is needed there.
20% of a cull being infected seems pretty high compared to other culls in fairness.
Foot and mouth in UK back in 2001 had 2000 cases but 6 million animals culled, 0.03% infection.
Always have been.
They’ve had this problem in the UK for years, a lot of unnecessary culling because some farmers couldn’t admit that their own shit practices were the main cause of the spread. Larger farmers are obsessed with socialising their losses and privatising their gains, so they’ll push this policy rather than implement some basic standards of their own.
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This is horrendous. We are a really brutal country for wildlife.
I still feel like a 20% infection rate is a lot considering how devastating it is for livestock. I mean if someone could enlighten me, my only reference is that episode from Clarkstons farm where a single infection nearly ends his local farmers season.
This is the dumbest shit. Call the department of agriculture after you shoot a deer with TB on a farm and they won’t even call out or do anything.
If your policy isnt following science and logic, its not worth the paper its written on. Great piece of journalisme bring that embaressment and mismanagement to light. Let’s see more conversation on why farming practices contribue to its spread and whether action is needed there.
20% of a cull being infected seems pretty high compared to other culls in fairness.
Foot and mouth in UK back in 2001 had 2000 cases but 6 million animals culled, 0.03% infection.
Always have been.
They’ve had this problem in the UK for years, a lot of unnecessary culling because some farmers couldn’t admit that their own shit practices were the main cause of the spread. Larger farmers are obsessed with socialising their losses and privatising their gains, so they’ll push this policy rather than implement some basic standards of their own.
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