Unhealthy Rise in Badger Population

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As a livestock farmer, it is distressing to hear almost daily of fresh outbreaks of bovine TB in our cattle herds, of personnel and breeding being torn apart by such loss, and no positive TB being found in many carcasses. The Government's testing techniques seem not to have advanced in 55 years.

I feel the need to highlight again the fact that the badger population has been allowed to increase to such numbers that it is bound to be a health hazard, if only to its own species. In any living beings, overpopulation and a ghetto situation lower disease resistance, hence the positive carriers.

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Unhealthy Rise in Badger Population

I have lived for almost 70 years in the countryside, tending to farm livestock by day and often at night. Until well into middle age I had never seen a badger on the run (only in a glass case). These days it is unusual n...

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