Today’s news that Dr Brian May CBE has won the 2014 Observer Ethical Award alongside Peter Wilcox is just reward for Brian’s unwavering commitment to animal welfare issues. The 2013 badger culls in Gloucestershire and Somerset focussed attention on his work, but Brian is not a one issue rock star. Brian ...read more →
Badger vaccination in the control of bovine TB From Fridge to Field This is a reworking of my October 3rd talk to the ZSL workshop on the contribution of badger and cattle vaccination in the control of bovine TB. Two major pieces of scientific research by Chambers et al and ...read more →
Farming Today featured an interview with Farming Minister David Heath this morning as well as discussions with a vet and a professional marksman on the humaneness of the shooting of badgers (jump to 4:10). Transcript as follows: Anna Hill: Farming Minister David Heath told Sybil Ruscoe the process is being monitored by ...read more →
Thousands of TB cows sold as food||TENS of thousands of diseased cattle, slaughtered after testing positive for bovine tuberculosis (bTB), are being sold for human consumption by Defra, the food and farming ministry, an investigation by The Sunday Times has found. The raw meat, from around 28,000 diseased animals a ...read more →
Vaccination no magic bullet in the search for a solution to bovine TB say MPs. In a report published today on progress to develop a vaccine solution for bovine TB, the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee warns that vaccination is expensive, offers no guarantee of protection and will ...read more →
Four more ‘hard’ years of culls ‘to control bovine tuberculosis’ Westcountry farmers hope bovine tuberculosis in cattle could be controlled within four years, amid Government claims the badger cull may drag on until 2038. Ahead of two pilot schemes due to start this… Gordon McGlone‘s insight: Bill Harper, chairman ...read more →