Query for TB report authors
I wonder why the League Against Cruel Sports would be campaigning to stop a licensed cull of badgers? Such a cull is not a "sport" but designed to stamp out bovine TB.
The report they quote concerns the supposed spread of TB from cattle movements around the country, these animals being infected by the disease and according to the authors passing it on to badgers.
But where this study falls down is the cases of cattle in closed herds, i.e that do not travel round the country, have no contact with other cattle, and having tested negative for TB for years, still become infected, with the only source possible being badgers.
How does the LACS and the report's authors explain how cattle that are kept as I described, become infected with TB?
All animal professionals should be working together to eliminate TB from both farm livestock and wildlife because this disease causes immense suffering in both, as well as beginning to affect humans.
W F Kerswell, Church Stretton
