Extract from Wales Assembly statement on the bovine TB eradication programme - Apr 30
Wednesday, 1 May 2019 08:05
Neil Hamilton AM:...In 2017, the Government did seem to be taking
steps in the right direction and I applauded at the time, and have
done since, her willingness to combat the disease in the wildlife
population by a means of cage trapping, testing and humanely
killing infected badgers. But, as Llyr Gruffydd again pointed out,
the figures here are absolutely dismal. Three licences on three
farms in the whole of Wales is not even a pinprick. To put this
into context, a cow is slaughtered in...Request free trial
:...In 2017, the
Government did seem to be taking steps in the right direction and I
applauded at the time, and have done since, her willingness to
combat the disease in the wildlife population by a means of cage
trapping, testing and humanely killing infected badgers. But,
as again pointed out, the figures
here are absolutely dismal. Three licences on three farms in the
whole of Wales is not even a pinprick. To put this into context, a
cow is slaughtered in Wales as a result of TB every 46 minutes,
whereas a badger is culled every 3.6 months. So, if this is an
indication of the Government's priorities, then they're wholly
misconceived, in my view. NFU Cymru have said that up to one in five
badgers in Wales are infected with TB, so we must, if we're to get
to grips with this problem, do something about this reservoir in
the wild...
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