A UK Conservative MP has said “all wild animals” should be culled in response to conservation groups calling for an end to the badger cull.
Richard Drax, MP for South Dorset, made the comments at a debate on farming in the House of Commons. He said that culling badgers has been proven to help stop the spread of bovine tuberculosis (bTB) between farmed cows.
“Can I suggest that rather than talking about stopping culling on badgers and to introduce some other form, that all wild animals have to be culled,” he said. According to Drax, this is because animals such as deer and foxes have no natural predators in the UK, causing their health to “deteriorate.” He added: “We don’t want to wipe them out, we just simply want them controlled.”
More than 210,000 badgers have been killed since the cull began in England in 2013, according to the Badger Trust. The Badger Trust says the cull has not been effective in containing bTB, but the government disputes this.
Badgers in the UK spread TB to farmers cows. They are also protected.
The issue as far as farmers are concerned… is it is impossible to prevent badgers entering the cows enclosure. As they tend to need large fields. Yet if badgers have TB. And treat fields as bears do woods.
Is spreads to the cows. And the law is pretty strict. If one cow is found to have TB. While heard must be destroyed.
Culling is only allowed when significant TB is in the area. Otherwise as I say. The badgers is protected.
If a farmer has a badgers set on his/her land. They are not legally allowed to do anything to harm the area.
Nothing this prick says makes any sense at all. But he is likely trying to appeal to scared desperate farmers with a genuine problem.