Summary
A report that slams Government policy on bovine tuberculosis control has itself been dismissed as unrealistic and unworkable by farmer organisations. Bovine TB - Time for a Rethink, states that one in five cattle condemned as "react -ors" in England are victims of a dysfunctional testing regime, while another one in five of any potentially infected cattle are left in the herd.
The report is the work of an independent research group, Rethink Bovine TB, and is based largely on information provided by the Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra). It condemns the current bovine TB policy, which it claims is costing taxpayers around Pounds 100 million and "causing the slaughter of thousands of healthy cattle every year".See the full content of this document
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Report Sheds No New Light On Cull - Farmers
It states that the current policy of testing and culling will take at least another 20 years to achieve ...
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