What is the problem?
• Rising rates of TB in cattle
Why is it happening?
• Poor farming practices, inadequate testing
• Most TB is spread cattle to cattle
What are farmers doing about it?
• Pressing the Government for badgers to be killed
What’s wrong with this?
• Taxpayers will pay millions for badgers to be killed
• It won’t work!
So what needs to be done?
• The Government should be urged to accept the Independent Scientific Group’s Report. It commissioned this at a cost of £50 million and took 10 years to come to the conclusion that killing badgers:
o Did not significantly reduce TB in cattle
o That the thrust should be the cattle themselves
o The costs would be forty times the benefits
• The Government needs quicker TB testing, more TB testing, particularly before moving cattle, immediate removal of infected cattle and better cattle hygiene.
What can you do to help?
• Write to your MP at House of Commons, Westminster.
Don’t sacrifice badgers
Don’t support the continuance of poor testing and farming practices
Don’t let taxpayers bear the cost
WRITE NOW!
More info about the badgers and how to protect them on The Badger Trust website.
The Badger Trust promotes the conservation and welfare of badgers and the protection of their setts and habitats.